Bluffton High School teacher Margaret DiPietro talks with students Ivy Schleicher, left, Carly Thomas, center, and Meg Tilton, right, Thursday morning during a class assignment dissecting a sparrow.

NEWPORT BEACH – A national physicians group that opposes animal dissections in schools is calling on Newport Harbor High School to stop dissecting cats in science classes in the wake of a series of ...

THE choice of a mammalian type suitable for dissection as an introduction to human anatomy and physiology has usually fallen on the rabbit or the rat. The rodent, however, is in many ways less ...

THE directions for the dissection of the cat are here so arranged that the whole operation may be carried out on a single specimen, and the aim of the book is to give the student a clear survey of the ...