Because of my interests in the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals), I was pleased to learn of an essay by Dr. Mirjam Guesgen titled "Animal pain is about communication, not ...

The realization that mammals and birds are capable of experiencing pain and distress has had a profound influence on our relationship with them. The knowledge of this pain capacity has inspired a ...

In lab tests, lobsters given common painkillers reacted far less to electric shocks than those that didn’t — offering new insight into how they experience harm.

Scientists feel their pain — finally. Researchers have established that lobsters feel pain in a manner similar to that of other mammals, including humans — and boiling, the traditional method for ...

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Do animals feel love, anger, or empathy? Researchers have long dismissed such ideas as anthropomorphism, arguing that attributing human emotions to animals was unscientific. But as we learn more about ...

In the early 1800s, leg amputations free of acute pain seemed impossible. However, the first widely used anesthetic, called ether, was right around the corner. Sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus ...