Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

We often hear about the biggest animals that would easily tower over humans twice, thrice, and some even ten times. But how big, exactly, are they? Let’s take the blue whale, which is known as one of ...

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

Animal intelligence can be surprisingly difficult to measure. We often judge other species by our own standards, but ...