The genomes of long-living, big-brained mammal species reveal that they carry more copies of immunity genes. Experts ...

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.

In Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and collaborators from the University of São ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds ...

“This is a perfect spot for horses and livestock.” But it turns out, the home wasn’t fit for animals and definitely not humans, according to Walker County investigators. The five people ...

Fibonacci sequences (sequences in the plural because starting ... on sunflower heads and the bracts of pinecones to family tree patterns in some species of animals,’ BBC wrote. Story continues below ...

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has clinched them their second Premier League title but it also resulted in something ...

Spirals are far commoner in plants than animals. Their most mind-bending aspect is their frequent correspondence with Fibonacci numbers. Here, each number is the sum of its two predecessors.