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Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling is a new and rather unique online journal, and I was thrilled when its founders, Andrew Rowan and Jonathan Balcombe, along with editor ...

Focus on animal or public health through the interdisciplinary master's or Ph.D. in animal and veterinary science at the University of Wyoming. You’ll learn from UW faculty who are experts in various ...

The use of animals for scientific research has a long history and has led to major medical advances, but we should not forget ...

Pythons, a wildlife crossing in western NC, red wolves and beach plant life. NC scientists discover how to track the invasive Burmese python while studying small mammals in the Everglades. Plus, new ...

A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Do animals feel love, anger, or empathy? Researchers have long dismissed such ideas as anthropomorphism, arguing that attributing human emotions to animals was unscientific. But as we learn more about ...

A baby’s first toy is often a soft stuffed bear. Soon, children may meet Winnie the Pooh and Paddington. They learn that these bears are kindhearted and polite with a good moral compass, cravings for ...

Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many animals big and small understand the concept of death. Reading time 8 minutes ...

There are more than 8 billion humans on the planet, and although that's a remarkable number, it's just a fraction of the number of people who have ever lived and an even smaller slice of the total ...