Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...

Chickens are able to pass bird flu to humans. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation says the number of patients coming in is on the rise — and interactions with ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

Charles Darwin once noted that natural selection tends to preserve traits that conceal an animal in nature. It can paint camouflage onto their bodies with astonishing quickness: The peppered moth’s ...

Animal-watching is fascinatingly fun. They are thinking and feeling beings, so they don’t always conform to whatever plan that we, humans, have set out for them. They can behave in incredibly random ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Despite bombs raining down and a lack of tools, feed and medicine, the shelter has remained operational throughout the ...