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

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

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

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 ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

It’s a question that has puzzled thinkers for centuries: Are we humans alone in our pursuit of fairness and the frustration we feel when others get what we want? In recent years, evolutionary ...

Children universally believe animals experience emotions and feelings but are reluctant to say they have human-like thoughts, ...

From a dog that 'sees with its nose' to an eagle spotting humans kilometres away, animal senses work in fascinating ways.