People may think it odd that as a practitioner of New Orleans Voodoo and Lucumi (Santeria) I would want to review a book focusing on Animal Lessons. Written by Danielle MacKinnon, Animal Lessons : ...

Last week I read an essay by New Scientist staff writer Graham Lawton with the catchy title, "Life in the anthropause." The online version is titled "Lockdown is a unique chance to see how human ...

Sixty-five percent of households in the U.S.—almost 80 million families—own a pet today, according to a survey by the American Pet Products Association. In addition to offering unconditional love and ...

Zoos continue to exist despite it becoming increasingly obvious to a growing proportion of people that keeping wild animals captive is cruel and dangerous. This is because they disseminate false ...

What makes a good leader? A team of psychologists, mathematicians, anthropologists and biologists came together over the past two years to find an answer to this question – by looking at animals. The ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Nomad Scythian herders roamed vast areas spanning the Central Asian steppes during the Iron Age, approximately from the 9th to the 1st century BCE (Before Common Era). These livestock pastoralists, ...