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?

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

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Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

While animals already have the genes needed to degrade ethanol before yeasts began producing it, there is some evidence that ...

New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in Color Signals Used by Animals Nov. 7, 2024 — A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before ...

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

Electronic tracking devices provide more precise information on animals, similar to the GPS technology found in smartphones.