Scientists are discovering that animals use surprisingly sophisticated communication to form partnerships and cooperate ...

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures? Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for ...

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New AI model, BehaVERT, reads mouse behavior like language, revealing patterns that could improve research into human ...

A new study from the University of Warwick suggests that the rhythm of human laughter has remained surprisingly consistent for at least 15 million years. By comparing the laughter of humans and other ...

Jonathan Swift loved to wind up readers by insisting we are no better than any other animals. In his 1732 poem, The Beasts’ Confession, the Anglo-Irish satirist imagined a wolf, an ass, a pig, a ...