Appearances can be deceiving in the animal kingdom. Some of the most charming creatures harbor hidden dangers beneath their ...

Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials.

Just how far are people willing to go to become their favorite animal? Get ready to dive into a story that's anything but ordinary. Tokyo’s wild new zoo offers costumes that turn humans into ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Startup Canaery is partnering with a US Department of Energy lab to develop neural implants for rats and dogs that are capable of decoding what they smell.

A Japanese man who spent $14,000 to turn himself into a dog, known across the ... Toco the Collie has opened his own zoo where other humans can become animals too. Toco the human collie opens ...

where the nuclei of human cells are inserted into animal eggs. The resulting embryos would be kept for up to 14 days to harvest stem cells. In the present state of science, hybrid embryos are ...

Hippos really only attack people that have entered into what they consider their territory. ©Radek Borovka/Shutterstock.com Are hippos dangerous in the water? When you enter a hippo’s territory in the ...

Having worked in the nature documentary field for three decades, Gunton is now creative director of BBC Studios Natural ...

As bird flu continues to circulate among wild birds and domestic livestock, public health officials are increasingly ...

and the Human Animal Bond Research Institute in Washington, DC. 1 “Both the breadth and depth of this study program promise to deliver novel data and greater insight into something many people ...

Most of us think of long lifespans and immediately picture giant tortoises or ancient oak trees. But the animal world is full ...