Everyone knows that mice aren’t men. Yet animal studies still form the basis of most biomedical research, even as their value is hotly debated. But exactly how often do therapies that start in animals ...

Animal studies are often considered a first step in finding new drugs and treatments for human diseases, but a new review has discovered that precious few actually produce real-world therapies. Only 5 ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the differences and similarities between herpetology and helminthology, you’ve come to the right place. First of all, they both end in -logy. Secondly, they’re both ...

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...

Interest in Animal Studies is growing so fast and I really wanted to create a text that grounds the interdisciplinary field. There are some other collections that have recently come out that are ...