It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

So what could possibly connect aliens and us? A new study suggests the answer is mathematics. The researchers argue that math ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

All of us are familiar with the 5 traditional senses, but according to a recent study, we may actually have a new sense right ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...