A new study using fossil evidence suggests extinct giant kangaroos, some weighing up to 250kg, were physically capable of hopping. Researchers found their bones and Achilles tendons were strong enough ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing this question, a recent study shows that predator and prey behaviors ...

UC Irvine and Jefferson Health investigators identify distinct structural and blood-flow signatures in two major forms of mitral stenosis. Findings highlight limitations of applying rheumatic-based ...

Imagine you’re training to be a chef. You learn cooking techniques and develop intuitions about flavor pairings, and, after a ...

Believe it or not, but ducks have a reputation for the unexpected: bizarre and intricate mating anatomy. According to ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

Pioneering techniques used in this research may soon be applied to other dinosaur fossils and alter the course of ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...