Jim McMahon, LancasterHistory curator and director of collections, and Nick Siegert, visitor services associate, will ...

The prettiest part of rag quilts is the fringed edge around each square of the blanket. To get this effect, take a sharp pair ...

Eating animals poses two moral problems. Is it wrong in principle to raise and kill animals so that human beings can eat meat and fish? Does it stop being wrong if the processes involved are ...

Animal behavior research is particularly relevant to the study of human behavior when it comes to the preservation of a species, or how an animal’s behavior helps it survive. The behavior of ...

November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Animal breeding is the process of selective mating of animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits in future generations. For livestock, this involves estimation of ...

But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now. "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure ...

CETI hopes that if humans can understand what’s going on inside whales’ minds—and, eventually, the minds of other animals—it might inspire greater conservation strides. The group has good ...