Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being ...

I was especially flummoxed by this sad man because I had just immersed myself in The Intimate Animal, a new book by the ...

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

Julia B. Linares-Roake explores how people navigate the muddiness of living with dogs from their point of view as we over-control how they play and express their "dogness." ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...

Scientists analyzing Bornean fanged frogs found what was once thought to be one species may actually be several genetically distinct species.

It was a similar story with plant life: crops selected for greater production (wheat and barley were two of the first) were often in proximity to their wild relatives and exchanged genes. This entry ...

Video. Firefighters rescued a young female wolf that had fallen into a canal in San Giovanni Lupatoto near Verona. The ...