This page contains information on why and how laboratory animals are used at the University of Helsinki. Appropriately monitored and regulated animal experiments have been and still are necessary for ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...

The vast majority of animals need to breed to reproduce. But a small subset of animals can have offspring without mating. The process, called parthenogenesis, allows creatures from honey bees to ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Here we describe, based on measurements of bending patterns across diverse animal taxa, universal patterns of animal propulsor ...