The UK government’s new animal welfare strategy takes aim at the live boiling of crabs and other decapods, but will there really be a ban?

Vikings brought horses and dogs to the British Isles from Scandinavia, a new study suggests. A chemical analysis of bone fragments from a cemetery in England provides the first solid scientific ...

England is proposing a unique, new animal welfare plan that protects one animal in particular: the humble lobster. The proposal is actually part of the government’s Animal Welfare Strategy for England ...

Joe Wills has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Thanks to new legislation, animals will soon be recognised as “sentient beings” in UK law. Sentience is not defined in the new Animal Welfare ...

UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer says a feline has become the first animal in the United Kingdom to test positive for COVID-19. The cat's diagnosis was confirmed following tests at the Animal and Plant ...