The length of your entire digestive system from the mouth to the anus is approximately 30 feet long. Your digestive system is responsible for breaking down the foods you eat so that you can absorb ...

March 6, 2025 • Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.

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Mar. 7, 2025 — A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with ...

Shebin Jacob and Nekhil R have found a smart way to tackle this issue, a real-time elephant tracking system. Now, tracking elephants isn’t exactly a new idea, but traditional systems are often ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

The main cast of Animal Control are all returning for season 3, as Joel McHale, Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer and Gerry Dee were all mentioned in the official Animal Control ...

The first step in developing feed additives is to find and test the actual bioactive compounds that inhibit methane produced by microorganisms in the digestive tract of animals. The guidelines ...

Enteric methane production — that is, from the animals’ digestive systems — accounted for 73 per cent of total GHG emissions in both years. In all, the study found, the estimated intensity of GHG ...

Feed additive insecticides can be included in mineral formulations for cattle. The additives pass through the animals’ digestive system and destroy the developing horn fly maggots in the manure. These ...

Communications along the brain-gut axis involve neural pathways as well as immune and endocrine mechanisms. The two branches of the autonomic nervous system are integrated anatomically and ...

Production of methane by methanogenic archaea, or methanogens, in the rumen of ruminants is a thermodynamic necessity for microbial conversion of feed to volatile fatty acids, which are essential ...