Zoo Knoxville's resident artists have feathers and hooves and long, winding trunks. Some are dedicated to their craft. Many have individualized, sometimes temperamental, approaches to the creation of ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Our knack for language helps us structure our thinking. Yet the ability to wax poetic about trinkets, tools or traits may not be necessary to think about them abstractly, as was once suspected. A ...

THE courteous request of the editor of NATURE that I should contribute to his pages an abstract of my experience of the value of experimentation on animals and on the most useful applications of that ...

Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid ...