Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human ...

While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways ...

Animals played a significant role in ancient Greek life, initially for practical use and gradually extending beyond that.

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I ...

Ever wonder what animals really think when they encounter us? The image we hold of ourselves wandering peacefully through ...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

Animal intelligence takes many forms and often defies human expectations. Some species solve problems, communicate complex ...

Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...