A House committee will hold a hearing this week scrutinizing whether National Institutes of Health animal research amounts to unnecessary animal cruelty, just as the Department of Government ...

Secondhand Pet Supply is all about second chances: For a struggling mall. For used pet supplies. And for former lab rats ready for a new life. From its location in the Lloyd Center, the Portland ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency’s research campus in North Carolina are preparing to take on a new responsibility. Bring home lab rats as pets. Or maybe some zebra fish. Both animals ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Looking for a furry friend? The Department of Psychology at Millersville University has 16 female rats up for adoption. The rodents were subjects in behavioral studies during ...

Millersville University's Psychology Department is looking to find adoptive homes for 16 female lab rats, the Lancaster County school said Monday. The rats were part of a behavioral study in the ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with ...