• Warm-blooded animals have fire in them and cold-blooded have ice in them. Jordan McGirt, grade 2, James Cole • Maybe their attitudes are different. Sonja Geddes, grade 5, Burnett Creek • ...

Peter Rabbit, the Cat in the Hat, Winnie the Poo, Charlotte and Wilbur share one commonality: they are all anthropomorphized animals. According to new research, those characters could be doing more ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she ...

A new study has found that kids' books featuring animals with human characteristics not only lead to less factual learning but also influence children's reasoning about animals. Researchers also found ...

Could it be that the key to world peace can be unlocked by animals? Here are a few ideas to steer your pack in the right direction. Stories of animals behaving "kindly" can show kids they can also get ...

Cat Larrison wasn’t feeling well when her five-year-old thought of a way to help. “He came up and licked my arm!” Larrison says. “It was as sweet as it was soggy.” Her son was imitating one of his ...

Flaws in a long-accepted test used to search for signs of self-awareness are revealing that selfhood varies culturally and exists on a continuum A crooked tooth. That funky mole. A pimple on your chin ...

This story was originally published on June 7, 2024, and has been updated. One of the joys of summer is taking your kids for a dip in the pool or the ocean on a hot day. But as refreshing and fun as ...

On a wall at Trader Joe’s are numerous drawings of shelter animals, each with their own biography, each an attempt to help those animals find homes. They are the result of Kids, Cats and K9s, a ...