The rebellious teenage son of a former colleague used to confront his father with this taunt: "Say, Dad, what's new in history?" He had a point. The past has already happened, so it seems difficult to ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

University of Dayton Assistant Professor of Environmental History Daniel Vandersommers is using animal history to examine a storied American institution in his new book, Entangled Encounters at the ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

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 ...

The bees are disappearing, but at least the ticks are on the rise. And just in case you want to make a tick a pet, I warn you, they're very clingy. Is this history? To say human and animal history are ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Liz P.Y. Chee vividly remembers the first time she visited a bear farm. It was 2009, and Chee, who was working for a Singapore-based animal welfare group, ...

Back in July, Russia launched a satellite into space that carried a harem of geckos so scientists could study sex in weightlessness. But bad news came this week with the report that the “sexy space ...