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• Early Jurassic dinosaur shifted from four legs to two legs as it grew up

  

  Scientists have discovered that an early species of dinosaur, Mussaurus patagonicus, could only move on four limbs once born but switched to two legs as it grew up, just as humans do.

   22 May 2019

• Royal Veterinary College Receives Royal Visitor

  

  Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall visits the RVC to mark the 30th birthday of the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA)

   28 Apr 2016

• Old dogs are now teaching us new tricks

  

  Research conducted by the RVC has identified that the emotional and physical connection between dogs and their owners is even more powerful than previously understood.

   06 Mar 2018

• ISCF WAVE 1 AGRI TECH: Robochick: an automonous platform for data-collection in poultry sheds

  Dr Theo Demmers, working with several other organisations, has been awarded a new BBSRC/Innovate UK Grant to work on the following project: "ISCF WAVE 1 AGRI TECH: Robochick: an automonous platform for data-collection in poultry sheds". Poultry …

   18 Jan 2018

  Dr Theo Demmers, working with several other organisations, has been awarded a new BBSRC/Innovate UK …

• Royal Veterinary College Council announces new Chairman

  

  The RVC has announced that Baroness Young of Old Scone has been appointed as its new Chairman of Council, taking over from Lord Curry of Kirkharle, who stands down at the end of July 2019.

   17 Jul 2019

• RVC collaborates to reveal health issues in different dog breeds

  

  A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) veterinary researcher has been involved in an exciting collaboration to create a single resource, in an easy-to-read book format, that identifies the health issues that each dog and cat breed is predisposed to. Until now, owners have struggled to find information about the diseases their breeds are prone to because this information was often scattered across thousands of scholarly articles in academic journals. Now, following exhaustive research that examined thousands of peer-reviewed publications on dog and cat health, three veterinary surgeon researchers have finally collated all this information into a single book source for owners, vets, breeders and students.

   18 Apr 2018

• Scientists uncover secret of mass mortality event in remote steppe grassland of Central Asia - Sudden death of 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes was caused by unusual environmental conditions

  

  Scientists uncover secret of mass mortality event in remote steppe grassland of Central Asia - Sudden death of 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes was caused by unusual environmental conditions

   17 Jan 2018

   

  The sudden death of over 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan in May 2015, more than 80% of the …

• British bulldog ownership has doubled but breed faces high risk of skin disease and obesity

  

  Findings show that due to breeding trends 12.7% of British bulldogs suffer from ear infections, 8.8% from skin infections and 8.7% from obesity

   16 Jul 2019

• FPersian cats at high risk of health problems, study shows

  

  Almost two thirds of Persian cats suffer from at least one health condition according to the largest every study of this breed

   17 Sep 2019

• Statement on recent events in USA

  

  I think most of us will have watched the events in the USA over the weekend with an immense feeling of sadness, anger and helplessness that, nearly six decades on from the civil rights marches of that time, the issues of racial prejudice and …

   01 Jun 2020