Enjoy the 2026 winners of the World Nature Photography Awards, including the top photo of a rare white humpback whale calf, plus highlights of amazing wildlife moments.

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Photo: Bill Wallauer For more than 65 years, research from Gombe has offered an extraordinary window into the lives of wild ...

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Learn how urine tests revealed that wild chimpanzees metabolize alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, and what that could mean for human evolution.

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

The turn to CGI has sidelined many of the dogs, bears and horses of yesteryear. But ethical questions aside, there’s still ...

Rabies apparently makes apes smarter and the humans it’s mauling dumber.

Measuring Joy Among Animals One of the first and primary issues for the joy-o-meter project is the fact that joy is hard to define. So, the researchers created a clear definition to serve their ...

Bumblebee cognition looks small only until behavior is measured carefully. Experiments have shown play-like ball rolling that fits established animal-play criteria, and newer work demonstrates social ...

DEAR READERS: Please see the following excerpt from a recent study about the ways that diet, public health and the environment interact. The study's conclusion states:“ This paper offers an in-depth ...