Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Have you ever watched an animal do something so familiar that it made you stop and stare? Maybe it was a dog looking guilty ...

Intelligence comes in many forms, and some animals possess abilities that rival our own in surprising ways. Chimpanzees use ...

Venom is one of nature’s most terrifying weapons. Some animals use it to kill prey, while others use it to defend themselves ...

However, paleoanthropologists, who look for evidence explaining human evolution, are far from convinced. The chances that ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site in France's Rhône Valley. The study of fossil rhinoceros teeth from this ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

To the untrained eye, alligators and crocodiles look practically identical, so do they know that they are two different ...

In his deeply thoughtful and important book, economist Nicolas Treich considers direct (animal-centered) and indirect (human-centered) aspects of animal welfare.

Patterns reveal the individual: A novel AI algorithm equips researchers with a powerful new tool to accurately identify ...

Crocodiles have ruled rivers and wetlands for over 200 million years, but a handful of animals push back hard enough to win.

The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.