How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental ...

There are scientists out there who are using AI to understand the sounds dolphins make, and it could have some world-changing ...

As the reach for human cruelty expands, we have a moral duty to create justice for animals, writes Martha C. Nussbaum.

When Arion Press celebrated its 50th anniversary, it chose to create a special edition of the timeless classic, Aesop’s ...

Keller Kopf does research on long-lived animals and has received grants associated with the management and conservation of fisheries and wildlife. In humans and other animals, ageing is generally ...

Animals are still getting COVID-19, but they seem to be more protected against Omicron than humans are. Researchers have some ideas why.

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral genomes.

In pandemic's shadow, risk of animal to human disease spread still high History shouldn't be allowed to repeat itself, according to researchers who spent four years studying human and animal ...

We have yet to overcome the communication barrier between humans and animals, but we may be getting closer by the day. How could we talk to animals? The key to understanding animal language could ...

An analysis of viral genomes shows it is more common for viruses to jump from humans to other animals than the other way around ...