Scrolling through the Arlington Animal Shelter’s list of adoptable pets reveals dozens of cats – most of them kittens – waiting for homes. One kitten, less than 2 months old and speckled with brown ...

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission rescued the cub, who is currently living with an orphaned baby bear at the Appalachian Wildlife Refuge Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at ...

Farmed animals in the United States have minimal legal protections, and much of the abuse they endure is legal. Unfortunately, the federal Animal Welfare Act—which establishes protections for pets and ...

We project a great deal onto animals. They are elevated into ideals of love and fidelity (dogs, horses), and often they are reduced to objects and tools (cattle, pigs, horses again). Much of ...

Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives. Credit...Photo Illustration by Zachary Scott Supported by By Bill Wasik and ...

More than 1,500 animal sanctuaries operate throughout the U.S., each providing its inhabitants with unique, individualized care and a forever home. Most animals that enter sanctuaries have experienced ...

Ms. Blum is the author of “The Monkey Wars,” a book about ethical issues in animal research. Early in my career as a science journalist, I visited a primate research laboratory that was running an ...

As he longs to expand his reach to Florida, renowned animal rescuer Lee Asher preaches kindness, spotlights the animals he knows inspire good people to aspire to be better and, maybe, even ...

While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...

Neil D’Cruze works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection as the Global Head of Wildlife Research. Angie Elwin works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection as a Wildlife Research ...

The Virginia opossum, according to John Smith—that explorer of all things Virginia—“hath a head like a Swine, & a taile like a Rat, and is of the Bignes of a Cat.” Had Smith looked closer, he might ...