The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

Weird History Food is taking a look at the animals we use for our food. Around 11,000 years ago when humans first began trading nomadic lifestyles for permanent communities, they also began to ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

There are twelve species of true foxes in the world, and they live in a wide range of habitats, on every continent except Antarctica. They vary widely in size and appearance. One of the most striking ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.