Since the changes, finalised RSPCA prosecutions in Queensland have fallen from 238 in 2020-21 to just five in 2023-24, according to the charity's annual report. An RSPCA employee says law changes have ...

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

Yet the trend of Frankenstein creatures afflicted with various diseases is steadily peeling back this idyllic veneer, ...

About 97 percent of Americans consider their pets to be part of their family. But courts have mostly taken a different view.

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Normalising violence in the name of tradition must stop, the Animal Party said on Wednesday ahead of Tsiknopempti – the second to last Thursday before Lent – when meats are consumed in large ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

I used to live here. I don't live here anymore.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund released a 2025 ranking of the states based on the strengths and weaknesses of animal protection.

Humans have the potential to achieve a higher consciousness, but are prevented by psychological conditioning, and a leap of ...