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Humans’ first experience with yawning happens in utero, says Matthew D. Epstein, M.D., associate medical director of the Atlantic Health Sleep Centers in New Jersey. Yet, Earth-side, the ...

Humans yawn from their earliest days–even babies still inside the womb can yawn. Photo by Flickr user Björn Rixman Snakes and fish do it. Cats and dogs do it. Even human babies do it inside the womb.

My dog is a big yawner. The very first time I picked him up when he was a puppy, he was a yawning, bundle of squirm. (You can see his photo from those yawny puppy years below.) It's two years later, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Scientists love yawning. No, that's not quite ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When is a yawn just a yawn? When is a yawn ...