Scabies is caused by the female Sarcoptes scabiei mite. The female mite burrows deep into the skin of a human host, laying eggs that eventually hatch as larvae. The hatching triggers symptoms like ...

Are there any animals with mental disabilities? – Adria G. Max was a fun-loving Labrador retriever who enjoyed going for car rides and greeting clients at his owner’s office. But around age 16 ...

Unable to identify the animal — and wondering if it was someone’s escaped pet — she shared a video of it on social media. On Feb. 25, Cerase posted a five-second clip of the tiny creature ...

A game-changer for animal welfare? Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A pioneering study suggests the answer is yes. Researchers have successfully trained a machine ...

Certain animals have evolved remarkable speeds to catch prey or evade predators. The ostrich, impala, and kangaroo showcase nature's incredible ingenuity, leveraging their speed and agility.

Animals' unique abilities to predict natural disasters have amazed scientists for centuries. Dogs, elephants, fish, toads, cats, birds, cows, and snakes show unusual behaviors before earthquakes ...

They are also the rare animal species where males do the majority of infant care. Female cassowaries lay eggs and then leave the nest, so males incubate the eggs and then raise the young chicks.

Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls Mar. 18, 2025 — A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural ...

The ever-growing field of animal healing called zoopharmacognosy refers to behaviors animals use to medicate themselves or their relatives by ingesting or topically applying plants, soils ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...