HONING SKILLS: Trinity biologist Robert Blystone says dissection provides the opportunity for students to develop scientific observational skills. Poring over a frog's insides once was nearly ...

Many universities including the UI have cut back considerably on their use of animals in undergraduate classes because of the high cost of the animals, stricter regulation on their use and recognition ...

(NEW YORK) — The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic animals for biology students to dissect, instead of the real thing.

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 ...

The age old science class tradition of frog dissection has taken a new direction. A Florida school is now using synthetic frogs to show students the biology of the animal. Instead of buying frogs from ...

Each year, more than 12 million animals, including frogs, cats, rats, fetal pigs, fish, and a variety of invertebrates are killed for classroom dissection exercises in the United States. At a time ...