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 ...

You have to see this book. It's unlike anything you've seen before. Author David Bainbridge has collected hundreds of images, ancient and new, showing animals without feathers, fur, or flesh. What you ...

The anatomy of an organism provides the principal opportunity for biological insight. Evolutionary relationships, function and ecology can all be inferred based on observable structures. From fossils ...

Veterinary anatomy and physiology constitute the fundamental framework upon which clinical practice and surgical interventions are built. This discipline encompasses the systematic study of the ...

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 ...

The openVertebrate Project, a.k.a oVert, CT scanned the innards of over 13,000 museum specimens. Their newly published images let you see inside lizards, birds, rodents, and more. Over the next four ...

A 10-year-old Billings girl used her knowledge of animal anatomy to help nurse a baby goat with severe nerve damage back to ...

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, ...