The ants launched by this spider catapult apparently experience 15 times the G-force felt by fighter jet pilots.

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

A new study suggests bees may be capable of using tools to solve unfamiliar challenges, adding to growing evidence that insect intelligence is more sophisticated than many people realize. The findings ...

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that ...

The aye-aye looks like something assembled from a nightmare, yet every unsettling feature it possesses serves a brilliant purpose. This Madagascar lemur has pushed the boundaries of primate evolution ...

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

Chimpanzees say to expect their debut album 'soon' ...

If you were to make a case for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, you would probably use octopuses as an example. Whereas humans have about 20,000 genes, octopuses have 33,000, making them ...

The global migration and refugee crisis represents one of the most significant humanitarian challenges of our time, but Anglicans around the world are actively advocating for change and supporting ...

Few issues have brought Robert F. Kennedy Jr. much cross-party goodwill on Capitol Hill, but his effort to phase out the use ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...