The Parrot in the Mirror: Why humans evolved to be like birds
SIMON INGS: Evolution has created a living world of jaw-dropping diversity. It has also generated what seem like astonishing coincidences. The…
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME: U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to California animal anti-cruelty law
DAVID G. SAVAGE: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to a California ballot measure that would force pork producers…
DAVID BROOKS: If animals could speak, would we understand them?
JENNIFER ANN McDONNELL:Turin, once briefly the capital of Italy, is famous today for its coffee, delectable hazelnut chocolate, Fiat cars, Juventus…
‘A Barbaric Federal Program’: U.S. Wildlife Services killed 1.75 million animals last year, or 200 per hour
OLIVER MILMAN: An obscure division of the US government had a busy – and ruthless – year in 2021, killing more than 1.75 million animals across the…
THE PAIN OF OUTSOURCING: NIH funded animal experiments in Chinese, Russian labs get scrutiny by U.S. Congress and GAO
TOM HOWELL: Global crises involving authoritarian states and concerns about animal cruelty are prompting Congress to scrutinize U.S.-funded research…
FISH CAN’T CRY: How silently suffering animals mirror humanity’s moral failings
MONISHA RAVISETTI: There was a time when doctors performed surgery on infants without anesthesia. And I don't mean centuries ago. This happened in…
Bias, Politics and Protests: How human laws constrain and sometimes liberate animals
SIOBHAN O'SULLIVAN: Guilty Pigs traverses the world of nonhuman animals – and their human owners, guardians, and policy makers – as they brush up…
COME HELL OR HIGH-WATER: Jail time and bigger fines aimed at Australian animal activists over farm trespass, under new laws
CHRIS McLENNAN: Animal activists face much bigger fines if they trespass onto Australian farms... The Victorian government this week claimed its new…
‘I AM SOMEBODY’: Constitutional Court of Ecuador recognizes animal rights in landmark ruling
PR NEWSWIRE: For the first time, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has recognized the legal rights of nonhuman animals. The ruling not only…
THE ‘THING’ ABOUT ANIMALS: U.S. state of Idaho’s legislation would bar non-human animals from ‘personhood’
REBECCA BOONE: A bill that would prevent animals, natural resources and artificial intelligence from being granted “personhood status” in Idaho was…