A group of people watches three albino rats leap from small baskets into a big cage at an indoor hall in the Argentine ...

Being a veterinarian was a childhood dream for Dr Charlotte Cantley, but getting a place at vet school wasn’t easy. Decades ...

A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its ...

A new nanotechnology treatment reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by restoring the brain’s natural cleanup system. The specially engineered nanoparticles helped clear toxic amyloid proteins from ...

For years, “yo-yo dieting” has been blamed for wrecking metabolism and causing lasting damage, but a major new review says ...

The reduction of unnecessary animal testing in the UK is ‘far too slow’ according to Newport and Islwyn MP Ruth Jones.

Every octopus alive today exists because its mother died for it, and the answer is written into her DNA. Here is the genetics and biology behind one of nature's most ruthless and elegant designs.

A newfound nocturnal navigation system challenges what entomologists thought they knew about how ants find their way ...

Researchers say accurately predicting Antarctica’s impact on global sea levels is an urgent priority that can be achieved by analysing the DNA of tiny land animals, pinpointing the continent’s icy ...

Long-term tracking shows a Burmese python is rewriting assumptions about breeding, giving new intel for Florida's battle ...

Somewhere between 200 and 3,000 metres below the surface of the Coral Sea, in canyons and on seamounts that had never been ...

India's tiger recovery is colliding with shrinking habitats, blocked corridors and rising deaths. Experts say the next phase ...