Six years ago, Mallory Cormier adopted a three-month-old New Zealand white rabbit with ears as long as celery stalks and a mohawk-like cowlick on his forehead. Cormier named him Chickpea, and when she ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Callaway, a beagle retired from long-term flea and tick studies, ventures outside for the first time after arriving at Kindness ...