Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alicia Silverstone and her son, Bear, are working together to support PETA's new campaign. PETA created the "Cut Class, Not Frogs" ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...

At first glance, it is not obvious that students are dissecting invertebrates in Greg Barord’s Central Campus marine biology classroom. There's no scalpels, no nose-burning formaldehyde, no squishy ...

Tuckahoe, N.Y.: Thank you, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, for your efforts toward education reform, including parental rights, misused funds, school choice and accountability in ...

A Charleston teacher is working to bring her students a hands-on science lesson they’ll never forget.

TAMPA, Fla. -- For middle and high school students, they either love it or dread it when it comes to dissecting a frog in science class. But now, thanks to a new invention made in Tampa, real frogs ...

Kudos to Connecticut legislators for passing a law allowing students to opt out of animal dissection and be provided with humane alternatives. This crude exercise has no place in 21st century ...

J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida is the first high school in the world to use synthetic animals in lab dissections, as reported by CNN. “We are so excited to have partnered with ...

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 ...

About 63% of U.S. public school students now have the freedom to choose not to dissect animals, according to data published in the journal The American Biology Teacher. Twenty-two states and the ...