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

Purina has awarded research funding to 3 international scientific teams as part of its 2026 Sponsorship for Human-Animal Bond Studies, a biennial program that supports research on the bond between ...

Humans have always been creatures of instinct, constantly attuned to the dangers lurking around them. But in today’s world, where encounters with wildlife are becoming increasingly rare, our fears of ...

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 ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. If a book’s topic were “farms for the production of beagles for some ...

Charles Darwin once noted that natural selection tends to preserve traits that conceal an animal in nature. It can paint camouflage onto their bodies with astonishing quickness: The peppered moth’s ...