A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

Humans and animals like the same sounds, new research reveals, proving Charles Darwin correct. The findings show that people showed preferences for calls that other species find the most attractive.

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

Dragonflies and humans can see colors similarly, thanks to a common protein in the eye that resulted from parallel evolution.

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

Dragonflies can see deep red light using a mammal-like mechanism, revealing a surprising case of parallel evolution.

Sperm whales communicate in a series of short clicks called codas. Analysis of these clicks shows that the whales can ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Is the mating call of a frog actually appealing to people? Researchers at the University of Texas are testing a surprising idea in a surprising way: humans and animals may have the ...