Equids, members of the horse family including horses, donkeys and zebras, share curious features called chestnuts. Found on ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

From penguins to bonobos, queer behaviors in wildlife are natural and diverse. Learn how animals challenge human taboos and inspire inclusion.

Detroit Horse Power students said they improved skills like empathy and perseverance after participating in the program.

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Vosshall and colleagues say that this is a lock-and-key mechanism, in which the gonostyli serve as the key to open the female ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

If every creature gained human-level reasoning overnight, nature would turn into a battlefield of instincts mixed with logic.