New research suggests that some animals may be developing primitive forms of language, challenging everything we thought we ...

A fascinating new book is an eye-opening journey into the many ways ants, apes, bees, bears, and other animals know how to heal and what we can learn about healing ourselves.

Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves, I couldn't wait to read it and interview him. Here's what he had to say about his landmark contribution to this incredibly important field of inquiry.

“I followed the blood trail on the leaves ... to develop cheaper medicines that don’t depend on expensive animal parts like apes.” Banner image: A western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ...

Since the 1960s, people have been searching for the mythical creature known as Bigfoot. Most cryptozoologists would place him in the forested expanses of the Pacific Northwest of America, perhaps even ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that has fostered companies that have changed the ...

Tula-Tu, the elephant calf born earlier this month, is undeniably cute. But she isn’t the first baby animal to cause visitors to Portland’s zoo to audibly say, “Awwwwww.” Here are 12 sweet ...

Zoo deploys stringent health protocols, surveillance, rapid response team to tackle bird flu threat As temperatures soar, the ...

At the end of the 20th Century, as obesity rates kept rising across the world, Dr Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, was searching for a hormone that could ape ... high ...

We’re Homo Sapiens; they have got Neanderthal blood in them. This is the science ... Only in one respect is Homo sapiens physically superior to most other animals: we are very good at long distance ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...