The US does not include within its animal welfare laws and regulations the rats, mice and birds who are subjected to research and testing. The federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was amended in 1970 to ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

Each litter is eight to 16 baby rats, Richardson said: “That is a recipe for accelerated population growth ... “The rat is the third most successful mammal behind humans and house mice. So it evolved ...