There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of Lassie in film and on television. Bart the Bear ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

THE WEEK spoke to Kalema-Zi kusoka, 56, on the sidelines of the T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Award and Lecture, organised by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, in Bengaluru ...

February 22-28, 2026 is National Justice for Animals Week. It’s an important time for people to reconsider how legal systems ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

You would expect apex predators to thrive at the top of the food chain, but even the most formidable hunters can struggle when food is scarce or injuries take their toll. In desperate moments, some of ...

Art typically seems like a human activity, tied to culture, symbols, and personal expression. Yet a small group of animals has created paintings and designs that sold for surprising sums. Their work ...

Measuring Joy Among Animals One of the first and primary issues for the joy-o-meter project is the fact that joy is hard to define. So, the researchers created a clear definition to serve their ...

Scientists believe there are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. The ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

Austrian cow Veronika demonstrates surprising tool use, challenging perceptions of cattle intelligence and prompting a reevaluation of animal cognition.