When we think about animals fighting, we often think that the fight happens in the heat of the moment. But scientists say the ...

Animals including meerkats give out distinct signals before going to war – just like humans, reveals new research. Social ...

Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

During the Ediacaran period, the critter wriggled around on the ocean floor of what’s now South Australia and preferred to ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series of independent evolutionary experiments. Credit: Stock Genetic changes ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over ...

This November 2023 photo provided by Gaorong Li shows a Haootia-like fossil at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. (Gaorong Li via AP) (Gaorong Li, Gaorong Li) WASHINGTON – Newly discovered fossils ...