University of Dayton Assistant Professor of Environmental History Daniel Vandersommers is using animal history to examine a storied American institution in his new book, Entangled Encounters at the ...

While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...

A new study led by Dr. Jack Tseng, published in PeerJ, has shed light on the intricate relationship between tooth wear and jaw mechanics in highly carnivorous mammals, known as hypercarnivores. A ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of what may have been the heaviest animal ever to exist during an excavation in the Peruvian desert. The P. colossus is a cetacean species, like whales, dolphins ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Sex and the single animal -- Learning from animals : natural history for children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Toward a more peaceable kingdom -- Animal consciousness : some ...