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 ...

These 3D-printed skulls are made with PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. Shawn Sanchez and Dan Smith. Get the Popular Science ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (KSAZ) --3D Printing is the way of the future, and in some cases it can even save lives. Staff at the Maker Lab at Northern Arizona University are using the technology to help animals ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

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 ...

For one dog that goes by the name of Derby, like has been anything but easy in the absence of two working front legs. Derby was born with a deformed set of front legs and lacked front paws, and the 3D ...

3D printing's roots date back to 1983, when Colorado native Chuck Hull did something unprecedented: he used a machine to print a three-dimensional object. Hull, who's the co-founder and chief ...

At TU Wien, researchers are developing three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques that can be used to create living ...