This is where the paradox emerges: the very cognitive abilities that allow humans to innovate, plan, and manipulate the ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in ...

A study reveals how seabream change sex and why some males invest more sperm, rewriting the hidden biology of these fish.

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

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