Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Colugos are relatively understudied mammals, despite their likely position as primates’ closest relatives.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

Since the start of the second Trump administration, the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has been responsible for the deaths of dozens of immigrants in their custody, and their fasci...

A new study coauthored by Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson provides evidence of the earliest intentional cremation in ancient Africa.

Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

The unconscionable, illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Badar Khan Suri, and other international scholars should alarm every one of us. Tell Congress to defend our right to free speech ...

New research uncovers how the last common primate ancestors typically birthed twins until evolutionary pressures began to favor singletons.

Litter size plays an essential role in mammalian evolution and is one of the most important factors determining whether an organism is deemed to have a ‘slow’ or ‘fast’ life history strategy. Humans a...