Harm toward animals should never be dismissed as harmless behavior. It is often one of the earliest signals that empathy is ...

During the height of the COVID pandemic, headline stories were peppered with photos of deserted streets from the world’s largest metropolises. Universities quickly began to resemble ghost towns, as ...

Sharks Are Bloodthirsty Human Hunters The 2024 worldwide total of 47 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks is actually in line ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retires, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This is from 2020. Q: Harley, my 3-year-old bulldog mix, doesn’t go to the veterinarian often ...

In the wild, herbivores are often seen as the peaceful grazers of the animal kingdom—gentle giants simply trying to survive. But in Africa’s unforgiving ecosystems, even plant-eaters can turn ...

Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. Rising temperatures, rapid shifts in rainfall and seasonality, and ocean acidification are presenting altered ...

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for 2½ minutes. In the time leading up to the darkness, during it, and ...