For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

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 ...

Distinguished medical historian Dr. John Parascandola offers an engaging, thought-provoking, and well-researched account of the growth of animal experimentation and the parallel rise of the animal ...

Animals in court–with charges, defense, and verdict? Stories about animal trials in the Middle Ages seem bizarre. But were ...