Why do beauty standards feel inescapable? Neuroscience and epigenetics reveal how our brains imprint cultural ideals—shaping ...

Konrad Lorenz, a pioneer in ethology, observed that militant enthusiasm—the instinct to defend one’s group against outsiders—exists across species, from greylag geese to humans. He wrote: "The social ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Big eyes, tiny noses and round cheeks; scientists explain why animals like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have us hooked.

She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — ...

Believing the gutter and 'respectable' press nonsense about 'Marxist Governments', the hi-jacked plane made first for Aden which two years previously had received the plane containing freed German ...

As work in modelling and acting began to dry up, her thoughts turned back to a book her father had given her as a teenager: King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad ­Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of ...

To test this in ravens, Thomas Bugnyar, a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna, travels to the Austrian Alps each month to the Konrad Lorenz Research Center for studying animal behavior ...

Social media users were moved by the response in the viral clip, with one claiming it is "proof animals are better than ...

In the first half of the 20th century Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch and Nikolaas Tinbergen laid the experimental and conceptual groundwork for modern ethology, winning in 1973 the Nobel Prize for ...