The painter Walton Ford has amassed dozens of vintage German animal figurines. By Julia Halperin In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most prized collection. Every morning ...

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

Papo in Griselda is a key antagonist who frequently locks horns with the Cocaine Godmother herself, but what happened to Papo ...

Researchers in Iceland have unearthed a rare remnant of the Viking Age—a tiny stone figurine they believe was once a child’s ...

What do animals know about death? It's a question Charles Darwin himself pondered. "Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion?" the biologist ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

The Internet was practically invented for funny animal pictures. Here are some of the best ones to brighten your day and make you smile. Get ready, because these funny animals will have you ...

In summer, reindeer's eyes are brown and adjusted to the long hours of sunlight. But in winter, the animals live in near-constant darkness. In response, pressure in their eyes increases ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. Woolly mammoths seem like an ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...