Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

Conversely, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, used rats to show that transplanted mitochondria stop damaged ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

Tribes seeking federal recognition so they can better address climate change face a catch-22 as climate change jeopardizes ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient human fossils have been discovered, helping scientists piece together the ...

Paws, Claws and Hooves Up at California Trail: Meet with Zookids up at the California Trail to learn how animals use their ...

God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...