Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

Long before humans ever set foot beyond Earth’s atmosphere, animals were sent into space to test the effects of microgravity, ...

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

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 ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health issues Olivia Ferrari As human noise increases around the world, some animals ...

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.