Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap ...

Dogs Know Their People ​Dogs are arguably the most iconic example of animals that can identify individual humans, but their [ ...

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Facial bone fragments from Sima del Elefante in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, dated to about 1.4 million years ago, represent the oldest known human fossil in Western Europe. The remains differ from ...

Neanderthal DNA explains how human faces form, tardigrades struggle in Martian soil, new tech tracking monarch butterflies and a fish with a hole in its head.

Faces of Death was notoriously thought to contain grisly footage of real-life violence for decades. Unsurprisingly, however, that's far from the truth.

Chimpanzees consistently choose crystals over ordinary rocks, suggesting a curiosity that may echo early humans.

If you spend much time watching online videos depicting releases of rescued wildlife, you’ll find that most people are ...

The populations of migratory wild animals continue to decline despite international efforts to save them from extinction.

Callers hoping to voice complaints about federal animal testing with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this week instead reached what sounded like the voicemail for a popular ...

This pair-bonding pattern emerged around the same time as bipedalism, a trait that itself encouraged intimacy. “Face-to-face coitus was now possible,” Garcia writes—which rendered the act more ...

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative.