With more than 100,000 Americans waiting on a new organ, xenotransplantation is a leading example of how editing animals ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

A study from the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour (MPI-AB) in Germany shows that wild fish can distinguish between ...

Colorado lawmakers push for animal testing facilities to offer animals to shelters for adoption after testing. The bill aims ...

Using visual cues, including colors on wetsuits, seabream in the Mediterranean learned to identify researchers that would feed them ...

From Mickey Mouse to Messi the dog, animals have been Hollywood scene-stealers for decades. But have they ever won Oscars?

What’s endearing is that cats who get along well will groom each other, wrap their tails together, and head-butt each other ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

What if dogs were more than just “man’s best friend?”That’s an over-simplified version of the question being asked by animal ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...