The San Antonio Zoo recently welcomed tiny newcomers to its small animal kingdom, with the birth of a pair of twin monkeys ...

This French Bulldog was the picture of patience when a little girl wanted to play dress-up and recruited him for her jewelry ...

A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species ...

The IUCN changed endangered status of emperor penguins overnight following a devastating loss, with climate change to blame.

The dogs we know and love today are members of our families, but it took thousands of years for them to settle into that role. As the first domesticated species, dogs originated 15,000-30,000 years ...

With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely ...

The Amazon molly is an all-female fish that ditched sexual reproduction entirely, thriving for over 100,000 years through ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

While it’s certainly a possibility, it’s very, very unlikely we’ll witness a new species of human evolve in the near future.

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...