A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

Beyond biodiversity conservation, the project is expected to support crop improvement in a changing climate. By mining genes ...

A new study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of the mind-altering beverage kava facilitated the emergence of complex ...

A 307-million-year-old skull from Nova Scotia is overturning a core assumption about when animals first began eating plants.

Alnashetri cerropoliciensis’ belongs to a strange carnivorous lineage that refutes the idea of the progressive miniaturization of its group ...

KWONG: Oh. OK, so you found out in your research - by tracing the phylogenetic tree of kissing through primates, you found out that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes who lived 21 ...

Researchers Gregory Goldman, Gregory Fournier, and Betul Kacar have identified a rare class of ancient gene families, called ...

After applying advanced evolutionary modeling techniques, the researchers report that about one-third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns believed to exist across all languages—show ...

Other near universal welfare issues among small pets — which apply to our cats and dogs, too — include monotonous and unnatural diets, boredom, and lack of enrichment. Pierce said that handling can ...

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Scientists dated a coolabah tree to 566 years old, uncovering centuries of drought and flood history in the Gwydir Wetlands.