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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — One Indiana lawmaker wants to create options for students who just don’t want do to wield scalpels in the classroom for animal dissections. You know the traditional tools of animal ...

Two animal rights groups want to buy more equipment for a Winona Senior High School teacher who offers virtual dissection in her biology class. Sandra Bussian allows her students to choose between ...

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 ...