Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic ...

Weird History Food is taking a look at the animals we use for our food. Around 11,000 years ago when humans first began trading nomadic lifestyles for permanent communities, they also began to ...

There are two main hypotheses about why humans (and other animals) kiss: either it’s a learned behaviour, or it’s instinct.

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Some animals are born with horns while others shed their antlers each year. But what's the evolutionary purpose?

Scientists have discovered that a genetic change found in animals living at very high altitudes may help repair damage in the ...

According to the data considered by its authors—a team from the University of Sussex (UK) and Lund University ...

We love watching superheroes throw hammers and fly through explosions, but some real animals can do things that honestly feel ...

Here are six species that have some of the strangest and most specialised noses on Earth, turning their faces into remarkable examples of evolution at work. The star-nosed mole has one of the most ...