Birds of prey are apex predators, ruling the skies with razor-sharp talons and wings giant enough to envelop a full-grown man ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

As early as the 1920s, some native mammals of South America, Asia and Africa have been introduced to Texas; now many of them ...

Metformin is the main first-line drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, but a new study on monkeys suggests it could one day be ...

In our increasingly fragile world, protecting wild populations and their habitats is a significant challenge. Open Access ...

A man who shared "horrific" videos of baby monkeys being tortured has been jailed. Peter Stanley, 42, from Liverpool, posted ...

Test animal tissue showed slowed biological ageing and brains showed improved cognitive function after metformin doses, team ...

Test animal tissue showed slowed biological ageing and brains showed improved cognitive function after metformin doses, team ...

Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology o ...

A tiny knee bone often found in people with a common type of arthritis may have helped humans evolve from walking on all fours to standing upright, scientists believe. Not much is known about the ...

Squinting into the treetops won't reveal the tiny organisms up there. But these creatures leave clues, in the form of DNA, on ...