Learn how the beaver helped build Oregon from territorial days to statehood and became its official state mammal.

This is the story of how Colorado selected the bighorn sheep as its state animal and how this choice fits the state's history ...

UC Davis Veterinary Medicine students share a moment with their canine friends during a break outside Scrubs Cafe on May 3, 2023. (UC Davis) Considering a career working with animals? While the most ...

In today's human-dominated and overpopulated world, there are few, if any, countries in which species of nonhuman animal (animals) aren't under assault by humans who wantonly trespass into their homes ...

We like to see ourselves as special, but whatever the difference between humans and animals may be, it is unlikely to be found in the emotional domain. — Frans de Waal, “Your Dog Feels as Guilty as ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects and organizes information on crime in the United States. Police departments across the country submit crime data to ...

Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve ...

The Trump administration is receiving an outpouring of support from animal advocacy groups, lawmakers and others for recent announcements to end animal testing within programs at the FDA and EPA.