It’s unusual to see animals of different species become friends — especially in the wild. Sure, we’ve seen farm animals or ...

Researchers are using large language models to decode the communication patterns of animals. Google DeepMind is building DolphinGemma, which studies dolphin sounds to understand them. The Earth ...

Most people have observed how animals love each other. When your cat grooms your dog, that is love. If you lose one of your pets and your other pets seem to mope around the house, that is love. If you ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Li Zhang, professor of physiology and neuroscience at USC's Keck School of Medicine, how mice perform first aid on each other. The instinct to help a fellow creature runs deep ...

Like most people, I hate having a cold or the flu. But being sick gets slightly better when a friend drops off some classic movies or goes out for a snack and comes back to throw it up all over me.

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...