Along with memorial messages, the website is collecting donations to improve the breeding environment for 10 chimpanzees.

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

Art typically seems like a human activity, tied to culture, symbols, and personal expression. Yet a small group of animals has created paintings and designs that sold for surprising sums. Their work ...

In terms of emotion, the ecologist Almo Farina and environmental scientist Philip James have argued that the fear of humans ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

With his wife and research partner, Vanessa Woods, Hare is the author of several best-selling books on the psychology of dogs, including “The Genius of Dogs,” “Survival of the Friendliest: ...

Chiquita Brands International is betting that the next chapter in bananas won’t be entirely written in a lab with gene ...