It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music. Using fish as a reward, he taught her the ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Social competition shaped behaviors that still influence human emotional health. Depression may reflect evolved signals of ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

Australian koalas have fingerprints like humans. This surprises scientists and forensic experts. Koalas use fingerprints to grip trees. This is conver ...

Arabia's lush past revealed through mineral deposits, speleothems, and archaeological sites, challenging theories of human ...