This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.

No one knows how Bruce lost the entire upper half of his beak. What researchers do know is that the endangered kea parrot ...

Without a curvy upper beak to get in the way, Bruce the kea uses his lower beak to stab or joust at other birds in his social ...

Animal intelligence is not just about problem-solving—it directly shapes how species hunt, fight, and survive under constant ...

Modern humans continue to be drawn to crystals, sometimes attributing healing or spiritual powers to them. But this study, ...

Furthermore, a white sclera acts as a transparent health billboard. Diseases like hepatitis quickly turn the white tissue ...

Primates are considered to be among the most intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom. This is especially so concerning chimpanzees, who top the non-human intelligence list. However, among primates ...

Drumming and singing at the same time is impressive, whether you’re Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr or a chimpanzee. Japanese ...

For a long time, scientists judged animal intelligence by how closely it resembled human behavior. That left a lot unnoticed.

From genetically engineered humans to seeding other worlds with new life, to how long you can be clinically dead and still be ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

Gombe, Tanzania, is one of the few conservation landscapes in the world where more than six decades of continuous field ...