V isit the Antarctic and you’ll find penguins. Lots of penguins. Chubby, slow (on land, at least), feathery penguins. And do ...

Rare animals from India’s deserts and mountains are captivating global audiences, as Bactrian camels, indigenous dogs, birds ...

Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the ...

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Laparoscopic ovariectomy represents a paradigm shift in veterinary sterilization, offering reduced pain scores and faster ...

As Brazil’s Atlantic Forest shrinks, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species appear to be shifting toward humans.

An AI app, developed by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, has been used to analyse footprints made by dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago.

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...