Humans are social beings and complex emotions have always been a part of human evolution but did you ever wonder that some ...

Despite bombs raining down and a lack of tools, feed and medicine, the shelter has remained operational throughout the ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

Sometimes I forget that what I see feels obvious only because I have seen it for so long. Blue looks blue, a wall looks still, and light ...

The Animal Medical Center’s renovated facilities include separate intensive-care areas for cats and dogs and five new operating rooms. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...