Dogs have been man's best friend for over 15,000 years—but there are still some things we don't know about our furry friends!

We project a great deal onto animals. They are elevated into ideals of love and fidelity (dogs, horses), and often they are reduced to objects and tools (cattle, pigs, horses again). Much of ...

When Vladimir Dinets first heard several years ago that a Cuban crocodile at Ohio's Toledo Zoo appeared to be playing with an inflatable ball, he didn't think anything of it—at first. Zookeepers ...

We thought we were the only species to enjoy intimate interactions, but as Jason G Goldman discovers, a few curious couplings in nature have changed our view. Sex, we are told, is pleasurable. Yet you ...

There was a time when kids, on weekends and after school, were shoved out the door and left to their own devices. “Go play,” our mothers told us, and we did. We wrestled, played sandlot baseball and ...

Jurassic World is a real "Indominus rex" at the box office, breaking several records on its opening weekend and continuing to draw audiences worldwide. The star of the show may be a human-engineered ...