Cats vs dogs

Did you know that each dog breed is grouped together with similar breeds? Different breeds are placed together to help us understand their potential, temperament, and to work out their perfect lifesty

The cloning of animals – pets, farm animals, racehorses – is today done routinely on an industrial scale. Bianca Bosker investigates

Bones create an internal armature that on some animals, such as an elephant or cow, appear quite stiff and rigid, but on others, such as the cheetah, they are gracile, loose and flexible, allowing for

It all used to be so simple. The story of how we – that is Homo sapiens, today’s humans – emerged from Africa and spread across what’s become Europe and Asia was a neat, straightforward narrative. It

Just as our lives have changed dramatically over the past 50 years, so too has the existence of our dogs, says Carolyn Menteith

A crossbreed is a dog that is not one specific pedigree breed, it is a mixture of two different ones. So, the mother dog will be a certain breed and the father dog will be a different one. Sometimes,