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Current and future practices for meat production from farm to carcasses leaving the slaughter floor. Topics include animal growth and development, genetics and breeding, on-farm opportunities to ...

A look at many of the more than 22,000 species of fish, from freshwater, to the deep ocean, to the colorful coral reef. We look at the origin of fish, how they breathe, why they have scales, and how ...

Fish, flies and bears, oh my! A new research breakthrough gives genetic proof of how differences in (very different) animals develop. An international team of biologists has identified the molecular ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An enigmatic creature that lived half a billion years ago is as "strange as life on another ...

A young girl welcoming you inside a zoo, inside of which are a walrus and a zebra, and a horse Classification is the process of organising living things into categories. These categories help us to ...