Our perception of animal welfare as a nation of animal lovers is out of step with policy and law that still allows differential animal treatment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find ...

As will become apparent from the following discussion, the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent Annual ...

Sentient director Tony Jones discusses his documentary about the ethics of animal testing and the tough questions we have to ...

Being sentient means having the ability to feel. A large body of scientific evidence stemming from studies of diverse species clearly shows that many nonhuman animals (animals) are sentient beings. 1 ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Letter from the Animal Sentience Committee on the welfare implications of the different definitions of 'animals' in UK law. A letter from the Animal ...

Ending use of animals in teaching and limiting surgery in research settings to veterinarians among suggested changes ...

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues. The report ...

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 ...