Animals news

• Rattlesnake venom evolves and adapts to specific prey, study finds

  27-04-2025 15:00
  Surprising new evidence challenges longstanding ideas about evolutionVenomous wide-bodied rattlesnakes on several serpent-filled Mexican islands have provided biologists from Florida with surprising new evidence about the evolution of animals.A team from the University of South Florida joined scientists from Mexico on three separate camping expeditions to 11 uninhabited islands in the Gulf of California, a region known as the world’s biggest rattlesnake nest. Continue reading...
  
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• Which dog should I get? How to choose the best pet for families, city living or people with allergies

  27-04-2025 14:00
  We asked professional dog trainer Graeme Hall AKA The Dogfather to give us his suggestions for your perfect poochAt the risk of pleasing a handful of the dog owning population and annoying the vast majority, we asked Graeme Hall, AKA The Dogfather, a dog trainer, presenter of TV’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly and author of Does My Dog Love Me? to suggest the best breeds for different contexts. “It would be really funny if for every category I said labrador,” laughs Hall. However,
  
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• ‘I think I’m about to die, then I see a white flash and Henry is on the bear’s back’: the hero dogs who save lives

  27-04-2025 08:00
  
  From stopping road accidents to performing a Heimlich manoeuvre, real-life Lassies have a long history of rescuing humans in distress. Their grateful owners tell allIn August 2014, conservation biologist Steve Krichbaum was searching for wood turtles on a small plateau in a West Virginia forest. His dog Henry was exploring below, near a stream, out of sight. Henry – a fluffy former stray so joyfully affectionate Krichbaum’s former partner nicknamed him the “Love Dragon” &
  
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