For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

Every continent holds the memory of an extinct bird that once ruled its skies or forests. From Antarctica’s prehistoric ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

Gibbons, small apes closely related to humans, face severe threats to their survival. However, their evolutionary history has ...

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct ...

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...

Ravens are intelligent, social and strategic birds. Science reveals their complex problem-solving, communication and social ...

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Scientific exploration is as old as humankind, as evidenced by a recent article from ScienceNewsToday.com “Scientists Discover Ice Can Generate Electricity.” Researchers at three universities have fou ...

Researchers studying animal behaviour say mouth-to-mouth kissing likely appeared in the common ancestor of humans and great apes more than 21 million years ago.

The Danube River, flowing through 10 European countries, stands unmatched in its geopolitical reach and historical ...