The drive to improve the lives of laboratory animals is having an unforeseen effect. Enriching the living conditions of rats, mice and other animals changes both their behaviour and their physiology, new studies show. This will have an increasingly important effect on the outcome of scientific experiments, including drugs trial
Britain’s hemp producers feel that after years of battling bureaucracy they may finally be on the brink of a boom — and can count Queen Elizabeth II among their customers
The World Wrestling Federation failed this week in its latest bid to be allowed to share the trademark WWF initials with the World Wide Fund for Nature
Chumbinho, a Brazilian dog with a strong instinct to retrieve brought his master an unwelcome gift Wednesday — a smoking grenade
Kidnapping amorous males who hold a sexual monopoly over their peers may be the key to saving some endangered species
The latest gay couple in New York to be photographed in matching tuxedoes isn’t a pair of businessmen or male models but a pair of penguins at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island
Keepers at a Japanese zoo packed with children scrambled Friday to catch an escaped polar bear — except it was a fellow employee in a bear suit
Kenyan game wardens have separated a baby oryx from a lioness that had adopted it to stop the antelope from starving to death
A big thanks to Dr Louise from Camden Valley Animal Hospital for staying back after hours on a Sunday to stitch up my dog after an encounter with an immovable object — the grey dog is a bit stiff but otherwise doing fine
A 35-year-old man, Paul McNamara, clung to a navigation beacon for almost an hour after surviving an attack by a shark which took a large chunk out of his kayak on the Parramatta River in Sydney’s inner-west last night
A horse has given birth to a donkey in a scientific experiment that could point the way to saving rare breeds and endangered species. The foal is an extremely rare and prehistoric-looking animal called a Poitou
A popular Indian film actor has crammed himself into a tiny cage and gripped its wire mesh to appeal for compassion for chickens as part of a campaign by an international animal rights group
An adult female hippopotamus attacked and fatally wounded Annetjie Mienie — a really stupid woman — who was photographing her calf in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park
It may seem like science fiction, but scientists say they have developed a technology that enables a monkey to move a cursor on a computer screen simply by thinking about it
A rat boutique where researchers can browse for rare breeds and special genetically engineered rodents has opened for scientific shopping
He survived a king, a coup, Soviet occupation, communist rule, internecine mujahideen battles, the Taliban and a US bombing campaign. But on Saturday, Marjan, the only lion in Afghanistan died of old age in Kabul Zoo
Harassing wallabies could be the next big thing in Australia, not as a hobby for mindless thugs, but in order to protecting the species. By showing tammar wallabies a stuffed fox and then chasing them with a net, biologists have taught captive-bred tammars to be more afraid of the predators that helped make them extinct across much of mainland Australia
NSW Fisheries is appealing for witnesses to the spearing of Sydney’s celebrity groper, Bluey, at Clovelly Bay last week. The metre-long fish was a star in snorkelling and diving circles and his death has left locals, including the Premier, shocked
Nexia Biotechnologies, a Canadian company, has successfully mimicked nature and produced spider silk, a coveted substance five times stronger — weight for weight — than steel
They eat hydrogen, breathe carbon dioxide, and belch methane. And they form the root of an ecosystem unlike any previously known on Earth. Meet the methanogen, a tiny organism living in complete darkness 200 metres underneath the surface of Idaho
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