Laura Jacobs thought she would never wear animal fur, having witnessed years of protests over its use in clothing – until suddenly she started spotting it all over New York. Jacobs fished out the long ...

Dobson was comparing the pigment-filled packets, called melanosomes, inside the hair of several mammal species when her Ph.D. supervisor, Liliana D’Alba, noticed the platypus oddity. Typically, ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a long list of strange features on this unique creature. These odd mammals also ...

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to advance a petition to ban commercial fur sales. This decision went against the recommendation of Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists to deny the ...

Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades ...

Sports fans took a break from obsessing over the 49ers-Eagles playoff game on Sunday and instead focused their energy on making Erin Andrews—and the fur coat she wore while working the game—go viral.

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Vogue will no longer feature “new animal fur in editorial content or advertising,” according to updated guidelines on the website of its parent company, Condé Nast. The guidelines — which allow for ...