The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer's disease have been preserved—and even slightly increased—across ...

Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach spots, using a crude ...

This video uncovers why the Tyrannosaurus rex earned its reputation as the most feared dinosaur on Earth. Viewers learn how ...

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 ...

The dental development of modern bears does not follow the typical pattern seen in most mammals. The reason lies millions of ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation represents an evolutionary argument as to why cellphones may be driving the ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of ...

Recent advances in botanical sciences have highlighted the significance of understanding the evolutionary and biogeographic processes underlying ...