Discover what sets human culture apart from animals, as evolutionary insights challenge old beliefs and reveal our unique ...

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

Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.

Study co-author Christen Lin added that while one might not expect a chimp to care if another species watches them performing ...

The number of trees threatened with extinction is more than double the number of all birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians ...

What if human history ended today?You are one of 7.6 billion people on this Earth. But what does that mean?How can those 10 ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...

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

The experts' assessment is clear: humans are the major threat to Earth's land, seas and all the living things they shelter, ...

A philosopher journeys into the world of comparative thanatology, which explores how animals of all kinds respond to death ...

Giant spiders the size of a human ... the species was found to be in terminal decline. The zoo has now revealed there are more than 10,000 breeding females across the country — an all time ...