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 ...

Humans appear to be the only species clearly proven to shed tears specifically because of emotions. Elephants, primates, and dogs show behaviors and biological responses that come closest to human ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans painted animals, symbols, and bodies — but almost never faces. Then archaeologists found a tiny ivory carving in France that may be the oldest human face ever ...

Humans not only recognize emotions on the faces of monkeys and apes but also unconsciously mimic those expressions.

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 ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

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

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights announced a settlement involving riders with disabilities traveling with their ...

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 ride-sharing company Lyft will ensure the rights of blind and other disabled passengers across the country to travel with ...

“He is my freedom, and he is why I am able to live independently," Tori Adres said about her service dog, Alfred, who was at the center of the settlement ...