Let's picture what our societies might look like if animals were granted rights against being killed, made to suffer or exploited for human gain. When activists argue for animal rights, they ask us to ...

According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world. Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed it ...

The planet is home to an estimated 8.7 million species, yet hundreds of them teeter on the edge of oblivion — some with fewer individuals remaining than the number of people in a small apartment ...

Six photographers journey around the world in search of animal encounters. Drive around Iceland, and you’ll see them everywhere: stout little horses, with beauty-salon hairstyles, dotting one of the ...

The following is a transcript from New Scientist’s CultureLab podcast. Subscribe and listen for free here. Christie Taylor: Science journalist Ed Yong is the author of An Immense World: How animal ...