Our perception of animal welfare as a nation of animal lovers is out of step with policy and law that still allows ...

Pets are deeply woven into American family life. According to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 97 percent of U.S. pet owners consider their animals part of the family. Yet cruelty remains a grim ...

Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), and Mannheim University Medical Center (UMM) are presenting a method that enables ...

The involvement of animals in supporting human mental health has deep roots, with documented examples of animals providing ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the ...

Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

(CNN) — Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Raccoons that live near humans had shorter snouts than rural raccoons, a trait that tends to arise in the early stages of domestication. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...