Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

It’s almost as though the existence of animals, and their various similarities to humans, constituted insults. Like a squirrel, I have eyes and ears, scurry about on the ground and occasionally ...

Animals were often compared favorably to humans, as creatures that we can learn from. This is reflected in novels like The White Bone, in which elephants have not only cognitive and linguistic ...

Indeed, it is possible that the study participants with more experience with animals were more likely to assign them human traits because they had interacted with them in urban settings - through ...

Animals are often able to adapt to their human-influenced surroundings. This is an Inside Science story. In 2012 and 2013, Bill Bateman, a zoologist based in Perth, Australia, began to notice ...

While the 6-ton, 9-foot tall animals were a popular catch for humans, new research suggests they aren't the reason the mammoth went extinct, ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans were wild animals. Our ancestors roamed the land in search of food by day, and huddled together for safety by night. But then something changed. We ...

Egyptian Animals Were Mummified Same Way as Humans. Animals were viewed not only as pets, but as incarnations of gods—and were buried by the millions to honor ancient Egypt's deities.

In a new study, researchers were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone-age humans. The study's authors collected about 25 lines of evidence from about 400 scientific papers from different ...

In the most human-dominated habitats, the animals were also 36 percent closer to roads during the shutdowns, they found. Image. Mountain goats roaming the empty streets of Llandudno, ...

Why Animals Recognize Numbers But Only Humans Can Do Math While animals and humans are routinely extracting numerical information from their environment, it’s language that ultimately sets us apart.