Animal Sciences

Researchers are getting closer to understanding how bears can endure months of inactivity without the harmful health deterioration suffered by sedentary humans.

Moving can be tough, but eventually most of us acclimate to new surroundings. That’s true for humans, and research from WSU shows it’s the same for sage-grouse too.

WSU scientists are helping provide a head-start for frogs overcoming long odds.

The shutdown resulted from the overwhelming logistical and expertise demands of operating a call back service available to an increasingly growing population. 

He is the newest recipient of the Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award from the American Society of Animal Science.

Training adult grizzly bears to give blood turned out to be much easier than WSU graduate student Joy Erlenbach imagined.

Supported by a $1.4 million grant, WSU researchers are developing new eDNA techniques to reveal and understand endangered amphibians on military bases across the nation.

With summer barbecue season in full swing, the WSU Insider dug into the Ask Dr. Universe archives for this hunger-inducing 2017 article. 

Leslie New will spend three years on the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, studying endangered whales found off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island.

Two Washington State University researchers are featured in a New York Times health story documenting the scourge of antibiotic resistance in an impoverished Kenyan community.