Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Michael Bond explains how animals have influenced our minds and cultures and why human exceptionalism is downright misleading ...

A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

Artificial intelligence is getting better at mimicking human language, solving problems, and even passing exams. But according to new research, it still can't replicate one of the most fundamental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

We think the human body is fully mapped. In reality, anatomy is still incomplete, and shaped by who was studied, and who wasn ...

Two decades ago, psychologist Christopher Peterson claimed that the emerging field of positive psychology could be summarized in three words: Other people matter. These words could just as well ...

Two chimpanzees meeting with each other apparently have a discussion using hand gestures, one of the human-like characteristics of other mammals. (Getty Images) Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, ...