It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

Emotional tears are a uniquely human behavior. Research suggests they evolved not for eye health but as a powerful social ...

The fossil vomit was found at the Bromacker site in central Germany, one of the few sites that preserves a fully terrestrial ...

Pigs are among the most intelligent and emotionally complex domestic animals, yet millions live in restrictive industrial ...

Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were ...

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An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

The results suggest that rather than stomping its big feet down flat like a human, T. rex would’ve pursued prey on its tiptoes. This mirrors the locomotion style of ostriches alive today. Not all that ...

A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, ...

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data ...

Three new neural network-based tools enable fast, accurate alignment and annotation of images even in very wiggly subjects.