This video has the caption: “Dad taking care of Mama during labor,” while footage of him lovingly licking her plays. Clearly, ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after surgeons saved her foot in a pioneering operation.

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis), whose mating calls were used as part of the study. Credit: Raina Fan. The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers ...

It’s important to remember that we humans are simply animals. A very advanced species, but members of the animal kingdom nonetheless. We all need water, food, and shelter to survive, but we also share ...

Dr. Rustin Moore argues that human-animal interactions are more than feel-good phenomena and that these connections enhance health, resilience, and well-being, often in unnoticed ways.

Scientists have mapped the genetics of cancer in cats for the first time at scale, uncovering major overlaps with human cancers. Key mutations—like those linked to breast cancer—appear in both species ...

In the book "The Call of the Honeyguide," applied ecologist Rob Dunn explores mutually beneficial relationships between different species. But Dunn argues the relationship between humans and cats may ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...