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In the two-and-a-half weeks leading up to Christmas, Catalan families will keep a log in the home with a face painted on it.

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Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

This video highlights a collection of unusual animals whose behavior defies expectations and traditional survival norms. It ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

From ghosts appearing in photographs to a lot of bent spoons, things got pretty weird when the “Alpha Kids” crashed a study.

Clout-seeking "hot girl" influencers are going viral after using Google AI and other online tools to add cute animals to their photos like something out of a live-action Disney movie. How much is that ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. As this year’s Halloween season nears its end, I’m ...

A solar eclipse unsettles the natural world in ways you might not expect. As the moon crosses paths with the sun, the sudden drop in light and temperature confuses animals and throws their finely ...