Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The n ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Leading virologists from over 40 countries are sounding the alarm over the increasing threat of H5N1 avian flu—which can ...

Now, picture this: a crime scene investigator lifting a perfect fingerprint from a tree branch, only to discover it doesn’t ...

David Quammen, who previously pinpointed a wet market - potentially in China - as the likely source of a future coronavirus ...

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