The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our species’ history.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is.

Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.