From metaphors for our behavior to demonstrations of our superior status, we use animals to help define ourselves.

The book’s family scenes emit an unmistakably warm glow, but ‘sweet home peace’ was mostly a fantasy for the author, as it is ...

As has been well-documented, Alan Alexander Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh to amuse his young son, Christopher Robin. An only child, the boy received a stuffed bear for his first birthday. The family ...

BEING spat on by a walrus, ­shaking my backside with a chipmunk and having Peter Pan declare me an “honorary Lost Boy” isn’t ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time. The method lets scientists dial protein levels up or down with great ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

Pluribus,” “The Beast In Me” and “Die My Love” take viewers inside the minds and egos of their complex protagonists.

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The major increase is being fueled by unaltered “community cats,” also known as feral or free-roaming cats, and their neonatal kittens. Despite expanded programs, the public demand for assistance with ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – St. Louis County Animal Care and Control is trying something it has never been able to do until now—waive adoption fees. It’s the first event approved under the county’s new ...