A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

A car backfires, and your shoulders jump. A shadow moves, and your eyes fly open before your brain catches up. That dramatic ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, although reproductive monogamy is not universal across our many cultures and ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — As scientists have researched cows and other mammals getting infected with the bird flu, an expert from the University of Illinois is advising people not to worry too ...

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far have the strangest diets. As omnivores, we have the most variety of any other ...