Various animals can cause damage to your lawn and garden, leading to unsightly holes, destroyed plants, and potential trip ...

An entertaining view of what unpopular creatures including raccoons, rats, coyotes, gulls, snakes, and other intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves.

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Animals that dwell at high altitudes have adapted to cope with low oxygen levels, a condition that damages a vital part of nerve cells ...

As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

Bonobos remain the "make love, not war" primates of the animal kingdom, but new studies prove they still have an edge.

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

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...