In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

Jane Goodall’s life reminds us that our well-being is inseparable from the living world, showing how nature restores ...

Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

“What are you being so mean for, miss?” asks Humphrey Bogart’s character in “The African Queen.” “A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it’s only human nature.” Katharine Hepburn’s character ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

A new global study has revealed that birds from vastly different species and continents use a remarkably similar alarm call ...

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

The Geographer Cone Snail, a beautiful but deadly ocean predator, uses a potent neurotoxic venom delivered via a harpoon-like ...

The cybersecurity landscape has reached a critical turning point in Q2 2025 as it is marked by a dramatic shift in ransomware ...

Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.