Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do. How do ...

Ever wonder what animals really think when they encounter us? The image we hold of ourselves wandering peacefully through ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Animal intelligence takes many forms and often defies human expectations. Some species solve problems, communicate complex ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) and human animals are constantly dying for a wide variety of reasons. Each individual's death is a loss, and while most people I know have thought about their own and others ...

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 ...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...