As communities across Hawaii dig out from destruction caused by the worst flooding to hit the state in over 20 years, ...

Dr. Rustin Moore argues that human-animal interactions are more than feel-good phenomena and that these connections enhance ...

Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap ...

Michael Bond explains how animals have influenced our minds and cultures and why human exceptionalism is downright misleading ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

For over 10 years, Patti Eichen has spent retirement volunteering with the A.N.N.A Shelter. She helps orientate volunteers, spends times with cats and more.

While this is obvious at home, the connection between pets and wellbeing is becoming more visible in the workplace too. Mars has been a pet-friendly workplace for more than 15 years. In that time, ...

Genetic switches near the FTO locus may enable hibernators’ extreme metabolic resilience and could inspire future treatments ...

Brandon Hanes, an Ohio chiropractor, adjusts animals after discovering his passion for helping pets with their pain.

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 ...

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.