We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory, empathy, and invention. But that line doesn’t always hold. Apes steal territory. Parrots ace memory tests. Bees react ...

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

Not all animals are born small and helpless. Learn about the animals whose babies walk minutes after birth, including why and ...

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.

Empathy. It's that profound ability to not just recognize, but truly feel and share the emotions of another. For a long time, scientists largely confined this complex psychological trait to the realm ...