A Washington resident has died after contracting a bird flu strain never before seen in humans. Health officials confirmed it ...

Donkey fecal samples were an integral part of this research, which focused on microplastic pollution in the animals' habitats ...

In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread ...

We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like ...

Ever wonder why humans can't resist moving to music? The answer connects dancing to speech in a surprising way—and explains ...

Snakes do not hear music. They sense vibrations through the ground and track movement. A cobra's sway before a flute is a ...

In a paper just published in Open Mind, a journal, a group of researchers with the Cetacean Translation Initiative ( CETI ), ...

Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

AI email assistants are crafting perfect, tailor-made messages with minimal human input. But some people are now worried their emails sound too perfect — including people who work in tech. Composing ...

Composing emails has never been easier. AI assistants can craft messages with very little guidance from, you know, real human beings. But now some real human beings worry that emails are reading a ...