The question for today is whether animals can time travel. Mentally time travel, that is. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to the ability of one’s thoughts to travel backward and forward in ...

A certain white rabbit and his legendary drive for punctuality aside, scientists don't really know much about animals' sense of time. How aware of time are they? Do they apply past experiences to ...

An essay titled "Animal sentience: history, science, and politics" by Andrew Rowan and his colleagues is an excellent state-of-the-art summary of what we know and don’t know about sentience in ...

Humans! They do like their words. Studies–by scientists who stuck recording devices on them and then counted–suggest that they speak some 16,000 words a day. Vervet monkeys, prairie dogs and European ...

The dusty white cargo plane stood out among the gleaming corporate jets, as did its passengers: 48 barking dogs, newly arrived at the private air terminal at Hanscom Field, outside of Boston. They had ...

The common denominator unifying creatures is the passing of time. After all, the same sun rises and sets in its daily cycle for all of us. Right? Wrong. Some creatures live in their own bubbles of ...

When the total solar eclipse happens on Monday, animals at homes, farms and zoos may act strangely. Researchers can’t wait to see what happens when day quickly turns to night. By Juliet Macur and ...

This time of year my phone just about rings off the hook. People call with all kinds of questions, but the most common is not the most obvious. Where to buy a fishing ...

The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time ...