During the summer months, the voles are largely solitary. However, throughout the long, harsh winters, they form small ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Affairs dominate TV. Human society is based on monogamy, so are there really that many people who stray? Scientists compared humans with other animals and found that humans ranked near the top for ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

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Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists ...

You probably do not think of animals as bullies, but the behavior shows up more often than you might expect. Scientists have ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Indeed, recent studies have indicated that the humble honey bee possesses a remarkable talent for mathematics and can even learn to use Morse code. Other animals, such as crows, have also displayed ...