Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, a bonobo was able to identify imaginary juice and grapes. Kanzi was a famous bonobo who could understand spoken English and taught scientists a lot about ...

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This is Part 2 in a series of columns about the place of the church in modern politics. Last week, I asked if modern political movements, especially on the left, could survive without the church.

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Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with that help them survive, finds a new paper led by Queen Mary University of ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

The animal lovers at Maymo share a dog discovering the joy of crinkly paper bags and falling head over paws for the irresistible sound and texture. Trump administration to make it easier to fire ...

The Queen gets to tell everyone what to do, and she chooses a few males to breed with, we believe,” says Kerns. “However, she can have one of the largest litters of any mammals, over 30 babies at a ...

The prehistoric realm has been part of Animal Kingdom since it opened in 1998, and will close to make way for a whole new land that's already been announced Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at ...