Do all animals look alike—or is it just our eyes playing tricks? At first glance, this seems like a straightforward question, ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

While humans and chimpanzees share a common evolutionary history, we will never hear how our ancient ancestors laughed.

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired our reproduction by blending biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy. Unlike the rut of ...

Ronan the sea lion can dance to a lot of different songs, but there is something about “Boogie Wonderland,” by Earth, Wind and Fire that really gets her going. It didn’t take more than a few days for ...