AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

Several imaging procedures have been developed to help diagnose diseases in humans. Examples include X-ray imaging, ...

An elegant approach to imaging the interior organs of small animals with improved visibility and accuracy looks set to help drug development and disease research. Imagine being able to accurately ...

The Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum (OVAM) is an excellent compendium of photos, drawings, radiographs and micrographs of animals commonly encountered by veterinary students. The virtual museum is ...

“First cats jump and propel themselves with their rump and hind limbs,” Lampa said. “Then they anchor with their claws – ...

Fun fact or nightmare fuel, you decide. Artist Satoshi Kawasaki illustrated a book called Turtle Shells Have Ribs: A Picture Book of Animal Anatomy Represented by the Human Body. The art depicts what ...

The Franklin Institute is opening “Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out,” an exhibition featuring dead animals that have been flayed, dissected, and preserved by a chemical process that turns tissue into ...

Using specialized parts of their bodies for tools and working with materials they find around them or produce organically, some animals construct spectacular structures that provide them with shelter, ...