Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Scientists uncover evidence that all life on Earth traces back to a single ancestor, dating back 4.2 billion years, far ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

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Bowhead whales' cold-water habitats help the animals make more CIRBP protein. Vicki Beaver / Alaska Fisheries Science Center / NOAA FIsheries With a lifespan of over 200 years, bowhead whales are ...