Guinea pigs may be small and quiet to the outside world, but within their tiny bodies lives a rich emotional universe. They do not speak in words, yet they communicate constantly through sounds, ...

Some puppies look like tiny wolves (especially Huskies). Some look like plush toys. And then there are the rare, deeply confusing babies who make you question whether someone accidentally swapped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she was little, her round face, dense fuzz, and itty-bitty proportions gave off strong “pocket rodent but make it deluxe” ...

Yes, guinea pigs can get 'solar dermatitis'. It is thought that this exposure non-pigmented (white) skin to ultra-violet light is one of the factors involved in the development of a particular form of ...

Loganton, Pennsylvania, a tiny one-square-mile Amish farming community, is home to 468 residents and 15 USDA-licensed guinea pig breeders. While this may suggest the community has a fondness for these ...

A new Japanese study has decoded why the population of radioactive pig-boar hybrids is on the rise in Fukushima, the epicentre of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident.

The news media is shaping reproductive narratives and stigma around childlessness, presenting it as a threat to national interests, a deviation from moral or cultural norms, as a risk and, sometimes, ...

Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Domestic pigs escaped Fukushima farms after the 2011 disaster and hybridized with wild boar, creating a thriving population in the ...

Astronaut Lisa Nowak is facing attempted murder charges after she drove nearly 1,000 miles to confront a rival for the affections of another astronaut, Bill Oefelein. Nowak said that she and Oefelein ...