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 ...

But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through ... Early in the 10-month-long experiment, the animals stayed hidden when the lights went out.

In addition to having a experiment that is "well designed, appropriately powered and conducted by properly trained personnel," Crook insisted that these experiments must allow their animals to ...

The experiment is one of three in the last six months involving USC animal research gone awry, according to records. A report from USC to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare says in an ...

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Maher, an honorary director of PETA, has teamed up with the animal rights organization to produce a documentary about America’s multibillion-dollar experimentation industry. The ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research ...