A rare success story from Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve shows how a community-managed forest supports both people and ...

It explains that human babies are 'helpless' due to their large-sized brains, which are 'designed for language and problem ...

Marco Adda offers a new view of how to interact with nonhumans and explores how we can learn from other animals’ movement, perception, and presence to help everyone involved.

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. But why? The "evolutionarily ancient" act of yawning likely serves a ...

Prior research has produced mixed results on the question of animals and their susceptibility to optical illusions, per the ...

Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching since at least 2500 B.C. Around the world today, many societies share kisses in ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...

In January, six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five elderly African elephants were not people. That may not sound like an issue that needs six justices to resolve, but ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...