A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Meteorologist Jim Cantore explains the anatomy of a hurricane.

Jumping spiders have tiny and relatively simple brains, but scientists are discovering they are among the smartest ...

Beneath their harmless appearance, ducks are engaged in one of the most extreme evolutionary conflicts ever discovered in ...

Some extinct human ancestors and modern-day apes appear to share wrist traits that raise the question of whether our last ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

SIMON: Neil deGrasse Tyson, his new book "Take Me To Your Leader: Perspectives On Your First," - (laughter) I just noticed first, as opposed to... TYSON: (Laughter). SIMON: ...Only alien encounter.

Attenborough began hosting and producing nature documentaries for the BBC in the 1950s. He spoke to Terry Gross in 1995 about about traveling the world to film Life on Earth.

Michael Jackson adopted a chimpanzee named Bubbles in 1983, who became his companion. Bubbles currently lives at the Center for Great Apes in Florida, now 43 years old. The sanctuary emphasizes, ...

The chimpanzees tended to build more insulating nests when the weather was colder and when it was more humid, both during nest-building and overnight. In cooler and wetter conditions, the chimps also ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Chimpanzee naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can now be grown in cellular cultures, reveals a recent study. They successfully created chimpanzee early embryo models, called 'blastoids,' and found ...