In a world where animal welfare often takes a backseat, these heartwarming stories uncover a shared truth - toys are not just playthings, but vital companions that can ease loneliness, foster joy, and ...

AI teddy bears use adult-only chatbots despite child safety policies, exposing kids to data harvesting and RF radiation risks through lax API oversight.

Punch the monkey ran away with our hearts. Watching him cling to a stuffed orangutan at a Japanese zoo as he struggled to make friends became a collective moment as people around the world grew ...

Build-A-Bear's new Frosted Animal Cookie collection has people melting over the stuffed pink giraffe and white camel that ...

A cozy corner of NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life filled with coloring books, stuffed animals, cards and clay is far from the studious scene most would expect at one of the city’s most ...

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque monkey, had no friends. His mother abandoned him. He wasn’t quite fitting in with the other monkeys at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo. The closest thing he had to loved ...

The medal ceremonies at the 2026 Winter Games have looked different from past Olympic ceremonies. Not only do athletes get their medals, but they earn a commemorative stuffed animal as well. The ...

As the U.S. and Canadian hockey players received their medals — gold for the U.S. and silver for Canada — Olympic officials also handed them a stuffed animal. Each player received the Olympic mascot, ...

Punch is no longer the lonely baby monkey clutching a stuffed toy for comfort. After days of heartbreak and viral concern, the young macaque who was rejected by his mother shortly after birth is ...

Punch-kun the monkey has won over visitors with his adorable toy companion Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest. She joins having ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- A Japanese macaque at a zoo here who was abandoned by his mother has found comfort in a stuffed animal, and many people both on- and offline are cheering him on. "Currently, there ...