U.K. researchers say crabs, lobsters and octopuses have feelings — including pain. The nervous systems of these invertebrates are at the center of a bill working its way through Britain's Parliament.

When John Miskelly heard about Jersey Zoo's cost-cutting plans to shut its colony of Livingstone's fruit bats last year, he was deeply concerned. "It's a very endangered species around the world," ...

It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies. Instead of bones, they found ...

The British government is establishing a research center to help minimize the use of animals in scientific experimentation. The National Center for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals ...

LONDON — A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa, a giant African ...

Kaylee Byers is the Regional Deputy Director of the British Columbia Node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and collaborates with the Wildlife Health Program, which leads Chronic Wasting ...

LONDON -- Livestock on an English farm that were tested after showing signs of possible foot-and-mouth disease do not have it, Britain's chief veterinarian said Saturday. The result strengthens ...

The most galling element of experiments on animals is how unnecessary they are, writes Dr Julia Baines ...