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If every creature gained human-level reasoning overnight, nature would turn into a battlefield of instincts mixed with logic.

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The ancient Roman gladiator games were a spectacle of blood and brutality that captivated audiences for centuries. While we may imagine sword-wielding gladiators fighting to the death in the arena, ...

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The moment was completely unexpected. It came in 2013, when Jane Goodall was 79, and was helping return a chimpanzee called Wounda to the wild. They had not met before. As Wounda ventured nervously ...

Growing up on a remote ranch in New Mexico, Megin Nichols learned early that the health of animals, humans and the environment are deeply connected. Today, that belief — rooted in her childhood ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

For nearly 10 years, Denise Krohn has not publicly shared what happened two days after someone broke into her home in Montgomery County and shot and killed her two dogs. The burglars stole laptops, ...