A common-sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co-extensive with the approximately baby-shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabo...

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The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.

Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up

We’re asking readers from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our second Invertebrate of the Year competition

We need to talk about the humans most affected by factory farming.

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.