In Yellowstone National Park, ravens have demonstrated remarkable intelligence by devising a unique method for locating food. Instead of merely tailing wolves, these clever birds create mental maps of ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Tiny fossil teeth discovered in Colorado reveal new clues about Purgatorius, the earliest known primate relative, reshaping ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans.

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...

However, paleoanthropologists, who look for evidence explaining human evolution, are far from convinced. The chances that ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

In addition to humans, some species of primates and birds have demonstrated under experimental conditions their ability to ...