Think about the last time you saw a spider scurrying across your floor or a snake slithering through the grass. Your heart ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

I've followed Dr. Clive Phillips' wide-ranging career and his eclectic transdisciplinary views of animal welfare and animal-human relationships. Clive was Australia's first professor of animal welfare ...

Humans have always been creatures of instinct, constantly attuned to the dangers lurking around them. But in today’s world, where encounters with wildlife are becoming increasingly rare, our fears of ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Cutting off reproduction — from birth control to castration — consistently adds years to life across species, even humans.

A Cambridge study reveals humans are less monogamous than believed, ranking seventh among mammals with a 66% full sibling ...

Human rights require the very opposite mindset. They demand that we value every life. Drawing artificial boundaries around ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.