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Leopards and tigers today are fairly solitary beasts, but the extinct sabertooth cat was likely a social animal that lived and hunted like today’s lions, a new study suggests.
The sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis) is famous for its extremely long canine teeth, which reached up to seven inches in length and extended below the [...]
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I really hate to say it, but until we develop a more reliable, accurate, animal-free way to model the effects of chemicals and procedures on living creatures, it would appear that animal testing remains our best bet as we strive for life-saving medical advances.
Now, before you decide to tar and feather and run [...]
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The Humane Society of Dallas County’s shelter has stopped accepting surrendered animals for the first time in its 30-year history because of financial problems.
The no-kill shelter, Dog and Kitty City, is facing a double whammy: Donations have fallen roughly 75 percent since last year and adoptions have dropped 25 percent as fewer people [...]
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A measure that would ban farmers from raising egg-laying hens, veal calves and pregnant pigs in small cages and crates by 2015 appeared to be headed for victory this morning.
Supporters of Proposition 2 said the initiative would guarantee farm animals a better life, giving them the space they need to stand up, turn [...]
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Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen.
A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C for up to 16 years.
Clones had been created [...]
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The tradition of cowherding has been revived in the UK according to the National Trust, with the appointment of a cowgirl on heathland in Dorset.
Lisa Hawthornthwaite will herd grazing Red Devon cattle on Studland Heath to stop it becoming overgrown with trees.
An increasing number of visitors meant the animals could not roam [...]
An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favor than a living animal colonized a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged, suggests a new study.
The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear [...]
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Five pigs still on the loose after a livestock truck overturned earlier this month in Putnam County may pose a health risk to residents who attempt to eat the animals.
The pigs were given large doses of antibiotics to ward off sickness during their long haul across the county, Frank [...]
When a nine-year-old boy ran to his mother shouting that there was a cheetah in the garden, she dismissed his claims as childhood excitement.
But when Julie-Ann Taylor looked out of the kitchen window she realising the surprising truth and saw a big cat attacking her son’s bicycle.
The 6ft long animal was just 15 feet from [...]
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For many of us, Halloween is our favorite time of year! But imagine what our pets must think when all they can smell is [...]
