Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Human laughter may trace its evolutionary beginnings to vocalizations made during play. This type of "laughing" is found in ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Animals across the natural world rely on a limited number of combat strategies when facing rivals or threats. Researchers ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

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

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

The field of biological research has long relied on conventional model animals to unravel complex biological and ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

In the Himalayan forests, the satyr tragopan performs one of the bird world’s most dramatic courtship displays.

A study reveals Kaziranga's swamp soil evolution, highlighting vegetation changes and rhino migration over 3,000 years.

There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...