While every love story feels unique, romance follows a surprisingly universal pattern. First comes attraction—that initial spark of interest. Then courtship—the dating phase where two people connect ...

In a playtime experiment, scientists found that apes, our closest living relatives, have the capacity for make-believe, too.

Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...

Sleep is usually associated with complex animals with brains and nervous systems, but new research suggests it may be far older, and far more basic, than previously thought.

The discovery takes us to Chicago, where a mysterious specimen arrived encased in rock at the Field Museum in 2022. It was ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

A new study informs conservation and land management efforts for one of the least understood mammals in the Pacific Northwest ...

We tend to think of animals as short-lived, especially when we compare their lifespans to human lifespans. But some species ...