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If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer ...
A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.
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A new survey is offering a rare snapshot into current scientific thinking on animal emotions and consciousness.
An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...
Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival.
The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...
A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." ...
Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...