DISTOMO – Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain village of ...

From birds to elephants, rituals are found everywhere in nature. Yet no animal is as ritualized as Homo sapiens. All human cultures have a plethora of ceremonial practices that serve many of the same ...

Many worry that a new proposal to ban ritual slaughter in the Belgian region of Flanders is yet another attempt to mask anti-Semitism and Islamophobia with a disingenuous argument for animal welfare — ...

Humans aren’t the only animals that use rituals to connect and bond. Elephant researcher CAITLIN O’CONNELL has spent 30 years studying wild elephants in Namibia, observing their complex behavior, and ...

Wildlife rescuers across the tri-state area are raising alarms after a series of disturbing discoveries in public parks and beaches. A Turn to Tara investigation has revealed that signs of suspected ...

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) — Animal welfare advocates say several animal heads found in a plastic bag in East Greenwich last month appear to be related to some sort of religious animal sacrifice ritual ...

Trash bags filled with decapitated chickens and goats were discovered on Long Island over the weekend — likely the grisly remains of animal sacrifice rituals, cops said Monday. An occult specialist ...

If the animal kingdom is anything to go by, love is, indeed, a many-splendored thing. We humans may have slightly over-complicated the process, with our penchant for ever-changing hairstyles and a ...

WARNING: Some of the images in this story are extremely disturbing. Wildlife rescuers across the tri-state area are raising alarms after a series of disturbing discoveries in public parks and beaches.