Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise ...

Taxidermied, locked behind plexiglass and spinning slowly on a wooden dais in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, the world’s most famous ewe remains a public spectacle three decades ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

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Dragonflies may see the world in a way that pushes beyond human limits—and surprisingly, they do it using the same molecular trick we evolved ourselves. Scientists discovered that these insects can ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

A new study suggests humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways dating back 15 million years. Many other ...

Gorillas are very intelligent creatures who experience many of the same emotions that humans do. Some of these heightened emotions can lead to arguments. But as one gorilla learned, sometimes things ...

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says she doesn't enjoy killing the snakes, she just knows it's a necessity.

For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities evolved. Much of the research is based on the idea that if a particular ...