New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

Studies found that the migrations of animals and birds from the savannah to the rest of the world were nothing compared to ...

The first study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, found that wild boars in the Czech ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

Why is it that certain mammals have an exceptional sense of smell, some hibernate, and yet others, including humans, are predisposed to disease? A major international research project has surveyed and ...

If every creature gained human-level reasoning overnight, nature would turn into a battlefield of instincts mixed with logic.

It could be a real-life “Contagion,” much like the movie. As a deadly pandemic spreads across the globe, a timely new study has identified key drivers of “virus spillover” from mammals to humans. The ...