A new study suggests bees may be capable of using tools to solve unfamiliar challenges, adding to growing evidence that insect intelligence is more sophisticated than many people realize. The findings ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

The ants launched by this spider catapult apparently experience 15 times the G-force felt by fighter jet pilots.

The internet’s latest sensation isn’t a celebrity or a beauty guru — it’s a charismatic monkey, vlogging with confidence and charm. If you’ve been mindlessly scrolling through YouTube Shorts or ...

This elusive inhabitant of equatorial African rainforests is the biggest of all monkeys and arguably the most beautiful. The 30kg males - three times the weight of females - are adorned with a golden ...

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence ...

The aye-aye looks like something assembled from a nightmare, yet every unsettling feature it possesses serves a brilliant purpose. This Madagascar lemur has pushed the boundaries of primate evolution ...

Ancient grooves on human teeth, once hailed as evidence of tooth-picking, may simply be the result of natural wear, according to a new study of wild primates. The research also revealed that a common ...

If you were to make a case for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, you would probably use octopuses as an example. Whereas humans have about 20,000 genes, octopuses have 33,000, making them ...

Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, United States Department of Neurosciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La ...