Today, more than two thirds of American households own pets. Annually, they spend more than $50 billion on their care, giving their dogs birthday presents and having professional photographs taken. In ...

Spirit animals are our guides in life, directing us in the right direction and teaching us lessons along the way. They bring awareness to our inner self and allow us to walk through the course without ...

Research shows cows are bright and emotional and pigs are intelligent, emotional, and cognitively complex "...the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should ...

Surprisingly, genome comparisons have failed to resolve a major question in animal evolution: Which living animals are the descendants of the earliest animals to evolve in the world's oceans?

Biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose had one big question on his mind heading into this month's solar eclipse: Why are animals so stressed out during totality? On April 8, as the moon crossed in front of the ...

There is ever-growing interest in the ways in which a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) deal with the ups and downs of their lived experiences in many different contexts. In his new edited ...

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

If an animal is smart enough, should we treat it like a human? An abstract question, but one that found its way into a courtroom recently. A case bidding for consideration by the New York State Court ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...