Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different.

New biophysics research adds to our knowledge about the origins of left-right asymmetry in the body. Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago and ...

Developmental programming has gained considerable attention in animal sciences because early conditions can shape how ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...

Harm toward animals should never be dismissed as harmless behavior. It is often one of the earliest signals that empathy is ...