No human in history has outrun aging, yet some extraordinary animal species have found ways to stretch the limits of life. They roam the oceans, remain motionless in the deep sea, or wander vast ...

We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory, empathy, and invention. But that line doesn’t always hold. Apes steal territory. Parrots ace memory tests. Bees react ...

Humans have shared life with animals for thousands of years, yet only a small number have ever become truly domesticated.

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...