Read all about Magawa, a specially trained African giant pouched rat who was awarded a medal for detecting landmines.

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Rob Gierka and Karen Duke explain why this dated, insensitive dismissal ignores the power of human-animal bonds and how animals are vital to our physical and spiritual well-being.

A dolphin's gravity-defying jump was caught on camera, with researchers dubbing it the "Michael Jordan" of the sea.

Wild dolphins in Brazil help fishers catch mullet—boosting success rates and forming one of the last human-wildlife ...

More than 80 people gathered for the 15th annual Weldon Literary Moot based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein, ...

This ranking counts down the 25 smartest dog breeds based on Stanley Coren's widely respected 2006 book The Intelligence of ...

Humans are regarded as the most intellectually developed, in short intelligent species born on Earth. But do you know, who is ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is.

Scientists conducted experiments where they dosed octopuses with MDMA. The study was originally published in the journal Current Biology, and examined how the recreational drug impacted on the ...