There’s probably no single person who has done as much for chimpanzees as the late Jane Goodall. One of the great British ...

Daybreak is almost nonexistent during monsoons in Raxidi, a village perched in the thick of the Western Ghats, an Indian ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Antivenom can save lives after mamba bites—but new research shows it may unmask a second paralysis, leaving patients with persistent spasms.

Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying associative threat learning is essential for advancing behavioral models of threat and adaptation. We investigated distinct activation patterns across ...

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Worldwide, populations of scavenging animals that feed on rotting carcasses are declining. Scientists are finding that this ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along ...

Just like humans may curl into a fetal position for comfort, some animals roll into a ball for survival purposes that go ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...