By Dr Elliot Howard-SpinkAdult orangutans eat hundreds of different types of food in the wild, but how do they learn what to eat? In our recently published study, we investigated whether immature oran...

Alt: Anthon Hopkin’s playing Hannibal Lecter, looks directly at camera and sucks air through his teeth. The gif is not captioned but this is presumably in the scene where he promises to consume someone’s liver with a fine Chianti

Merino Recalde et al. analyze over 100,000 great tit songs to study how demographic factors and processes like turnover, immigration, and age structure shape vocal culture. Their findings reveal complex interactions between these processes, advancing our understanding of how population dynamics influence cultural evolution in animal communities.

Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....

Hip, shin and thigh bones provide clues to life and death of young female Paranthropus robustus

The Marine Isotope Stage 3 is a context of considerable climatic instability. Establishing the link between global climate changes and their impact on…

The bone fragments belong to an extinct species of human who lived 1.4 million years ago.