Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Surveys show vaccine hesitancy among pet owners in the United States is rising, leaving both animals and people at greater ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests that dingoes have actually benefited. Hybridisation has led to an increase in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on daring dances, and others? Well, let’s just say things get really messy.