When a grizzly bear attacked a group of fourth- and fifth-graders in western Canada in late November 2025, it sparked more than a rescue effort for the 11 people injured—four with severe injuries.

MONTREAL — Peeps trickle out of a soundproof chamber as its door opens. Female zebra finches are chattering away inside the microphone-lined box. The laboratory room sounds like a chorus of squeaky ...

Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

One fact of life is that all people have to eat. While diets radically vary, much of who and what makes its way to humans' mouths comes from industrialized factory farming. Another scientifically ...

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 ...

Across the Rockies and Great Plains, beaver dams interrupt narrow streams, slowing currents into chains of ponds that reshape channels and spread wetlands across valleys. The mud-and-stick barriers ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

As anybody who's cuddled up to a slumbering cat or dog can tell you, pets have a profoundly relaxing, restful effect on our ...