Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

The study of dental microwear allows the analysis of the microscopic marks that foods leave on the surface of tooth enamel ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Isolated on remote Scottish islands, tiny wrens have recently been discovered to be a fascinating case of island gigantism.

Hidden beneath the scorched expanse of the central Libyan Sahara lies a prehistoric graveyard that was once a lush, green gateway to a continent. For decades, the origin of Africa's higher primates ...

And we need to start paying attention because all the weather predictions are saying that we’re going to get more unpredictability and more climate extremes.” Odd Jacobson, a behavioral ecologist at ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North ...

A new study from researchers at Dartmouth College illustrates that octopuses use spatial reasoning to find prey.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...