On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

“I once worked at an elevation of more than 5,000m in Bolivia and it was very difficult to breathe, eat and sleep.” Initially ...

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

From ancient fire-making and dinosaur footprints to planet parades and chimp medicine, 2025 science revealed wonder, surprise ...

Dogs and cats who prey on their pet parents after death are often trapped in their homes for days or weeks before their ...

Pumas in southern Patagonia have discovered an unexpected new food source in the dense colonies of Magellanic penguins, and the shift is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about big cat ...

Researchers in California are preparing for the possible return of a parasitic flesh-eating fly which once decimated livestock. The New World screwworm is the larval (or maggot) stage of a blowfly ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

In a new study, 79 percent of black-spotted pond frogs successfully consumed the northern giant hornet. Shinji Sugiura / Kobe University For a mouse several times its size, a sting from the “murder ...