Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or ...

By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

Protection by the state could prove critical as the Trump administration proposes new rules to weaken the federal Endangered ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

The latest debate to tear through the internet envisions a gladiatorial battle between humans and one of our great ape ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient mammal from a small jawbone found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

The dolphin is alive and getting around-the-clock care at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport. But its ...

The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.

Aside from birds, hundreds of other types of animals are struck annually, though these incidents rarely cause human injury or ...

A new study shows female bonobos team up to fend off males in the wild. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in ...

The changing climate has dramatically changed the migration patterns of several large mammals in Iran, a new study found. ...