Animal experimentation

Ig Nobel spoof awards have been held in the US recognising

Chimpanzees can understand how to play rock-paper-scissors, Japanese primatologists have claimed. Footage released by Kyoto University in Japan

Scientists at a British zoo use IVF techniques to help save the northern white rhino.

The French Air Force is training baby eagles to bring down remote-controlled drones that have strayed into restricted airspace.

Scientists have created the first human-animal hybrids in a major breakthrough which could address a critical shortage of donor organs. A team of

Animal testing raises sometimes violently passionate debate and opposition, but for medical research surely it is sadly unavoidable? Perhaps not for much longer if European scientists' research bears

Extremely venomous animals like snakes have long been feared and exterminated. What you are about to see in this report is that the same venom that

Japan’s whaling fleet has set sail for the Antarctic on a three-month voyage, which the Japanese government claims is in the name of scientific

MEPs have called for a permanent ban on the cloning of all farm animals, setting them on a potential collision course with EU governments. They voted

Concerns about food products from cloned animals are preoccupying Emma from Lyon, who asks: “In Europe are we eating meat or milk from cloned

Rats damage crops, buildings and infrastructure, costing billions of euros every year. They also carry more than 60 diseases that threaten humans and

Unlike humans, octopuses don’t have a constant awareness of their arms’ locations. Their walnut-sized brain simply cannot keep track of what their