Visit the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro and see one of the largest chimpanzee troops in the U.S., plus expansive wildlife ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

The human chin is one of evolution’s strangest quirks. Unlike other primates, we alone have a protruding bony point beneath ...

In a new research paper published in Science, cognitive scientists from Johns Hopkins University reported on a bonobo’s ability to participate in shared imaginative play that was previously considered ...

Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint.

Over the past 15 years, INRAE has contributed to developing the Meat 3G (Global Guaranteed Grading) system to predict the eating quality of beef cuts, in partnership with the French Livestock ...

Bones currently separated by thousands of miles could rewrite a piece of the natural history of northern Wyoming. Detailed in ...

The secret to youthful appearance and repairing scars may lie in a microscopic skin structure humans share with pigs and ...

Tallis in Wonderland The Possibility-Bearing Animal Raymond Tallis explores a twilight zone. There have been many ways in which philosophers have tried to characterise our distinc ...

Explore this North Carolina science museum where interactive exhibits, dinosaurs, and hands-on fun make learning an adventure ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...