Thomas Kuhn, the 20th-century historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift,” had a name for such breakdowns in ...

South Carolina primate breeding farm and laboratory Alpha Genesis is expanding its retirement services amid a federal push to end monkey experimentation.

Determined to end animal-based experiments they describe as immoral and ineffective, animal rights activists declared a major ...

In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with the help of a lightning storm, ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

A peer‑reviewed study in the journal Primates has found that habitual hot spring bathing is associated with measurable ...

Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery ...

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS GO BACK ON CHOPPING BLOCK: Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson faced intense ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy ...