Ever wonder what animals really think when they encounter us? The image we hold of ourselves wandering peacefully through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why nature allows animals to have litters but not humans is a question that comes naturally when we compare ourselves to the ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...