EDITORIAL: How to map the bridges between zoology and pharmacology?

The evolution of the modern sciences had lead to divers ramifications and to the emergence of new fields from the known classical sciences (Vermeulen et al., 2013). Yet, such classical sciences and the new emerging fields are still closely related due to the interactions they have with each other’s and the features they share which make mapping the links between them an important issue to both achieve more advances and eventually redefine the existing borders. Modern research areas such as biological sciences and medicine are important multidisciplinary fields for which both zoology and pharmacology play important roles in the advancement, description and applications of the new findings within novel contexts. Herein, common features and strong links can be described between zoology and pharmacology.