Enrichment—adding complexity to an animal’s environment—is an essential element of improving the lives of animals in captivity. Species-appropriate toys, puzzles, and structures, for example, can ...

Dr. Shannon McGee joined forces with caretaker Mike Garey and Novacopy to make an accurate 3D printed new foot for Buttercup. The duck, who was born with a backwards foot, is now able to walk around ...

You can 3D print almost anything these days: prosthetic limbs, clothing, orthotics, toys. Here’s a new one you might not have heard yet: Birds. More specifically, over 55 species of endangered and ...

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3D printing has made a real impact in the world of medicine, particularly when it comes to aiding amputees in the third world. But this technology has plenty to offer the animal kingdom too, as a ...

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A design innovation researcher at the Glasgow School of Art named Fergus Fullarton Pegg designed a 3D-printed orthosis for his young cat Sprocket after it was hit by a car and mauled by a dog six ...

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In 2020, Drs. Constance Woodman and Giridhar Athrey of Texas A&M University were awarded an AWI Refinement Research Award for a study investigating the toxicity of various 3D printing materials to ...

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear prosthetic tails. Meet Mr. Stubbs, an American alligator that lost its tail several years ago while being illegally transported by a group of animal-traffickers.

Paolo Miamoto may be known for fixing human teeth, but he is perhaps most proud of giving Vitória the goose her smile back. When the greylag goose was dropped off at a animal rescue center near São ...

They are only a few tens of micrometres long - far smaller than the width of a human hair - yet these robots can swim, sense, navigate and adapt in ...