As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Actress Piper Curda, who voices the film's central character Mabel, and comedian Bobby Moynihan, who plays the beaver King ...

Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

From an animal that’s not actually an animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

Quick Take Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in hundreds of animal species, though it is not considered a required function for specific ecosystem roles. Some researchers suggest that ...

The animal-loving team at Ginger Cat explores how animals can form genuine friendships with humans, capturing moments full of trust and joy. American manufacturer’s hidden tag calling president "idiot ...

Flanged males are particularly attractive to females and father more than their fair share of offspring. This raises the question of why more males don’t adopt the flanged look. The answer may be that ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...