Lovebirds are unusual not just because of their shameless PDA, but because they choose one mate for life. While more than 90 ...

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

A massive new study comparing more than 100,000 people with today’s most advanced AI systems delivers a surprising result: generative AI can now beat the average human on certain creativity tests.

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

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 ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

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 protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

And I'm Juana Summers. And it's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by two members of the team, Angela Zhang and Regina Barber. Hi to both of you.

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