What exactly is a family? Even more profoundly, why is a family? Entire wings of the literary canon have confronted these questions, usually by framing them within the context of human families only.

At its worst, a nonfiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry biology textbook. But that's not the kind of book Eliot Schrefer wrote. His book, called "Queer Ducks (And Other ...

Trust me. This is going to be a rave review for a new book about animal-human communication by naturalist, filmmaker, and writer Tom Mustill. But first .... I read a lot of pop-sci books about animal ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Aimee Nezhukumatathil METAZOA Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind By Peter Godfrey-Smith One of ...

For Jeffrey Kluger’s feature on animal grieving in this week’s issue, TIME reached out to noted animal photographer Charlotte Dumas, who has been making deeply empathetic portraits of a variety of ...

The nonprofit Global Witness reports that, since 2012, it has“ documented more than 2,200 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders worldwide,” including 146 in 2024 alone.

Wild Tunes connects shelters like Anti-Cruelty with volunteer musicians of all backgrounds and levels of experience.

Every year, hundreds of racehorses break one of the myriad bones in their lower legs while training or competing in races, meaning that they must be euthanized. Although it’s a relatively tiny ...