Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism?

So this sunflower tree inspired by the season and tradition ... I chatter with the trees in my garden due to my own perennial interest in animism — the belief that all creatures have spiritual ...

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...