A new novel helps explain why so many storytellers enlist animal narrators to explore humanity.
Dan Werb discusses his new book, 'Our Wild Familiars,' about how wild animals learned to thrive in cities. Plus, we pay a ...
The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Choanoflagellates, like most single celled ...
Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the first animal ...