Infants' helplessness demonstrates unique social implications for human development. In a new paper developmental psychology ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...

There’s an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can’t see them, bacteria, viruses, and other ...

New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

Countless scientists and at least a dozen high-concept sci-fi comedies over the past 30 years have speculated on the ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

Along the warm waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast lives a creature so gentle that sailors once mistook it for a mermaid. Slow ...

Genetic switches near the FTO locus may enable hibernators’ extreme metabolic resilience and could inspire future treatments ...

Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...