As the Year of the Horse approaches, people from China, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom talk about how ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Across reptiles, birds, rodents, and humans, the brain showed the same slow rhythm, cycling over tens of seconds. This ...

The HU are ready to show you “The Real You.” The heavy Mongolian folk-metal hybridists have returned with their first single ...

Falling from a galloping horse, being trampled on the waist by horse hooves, ribs shattered, legs broken. Spectators’ curses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sweet rescued baby elephant at a Thailand elephant reserve is going viral after a video captured the adorable calf racing to its ...

The sweet baby immediately recognizes its caretaker. Rescued baby elephant hugs former caretaker in viral, heartwarming video at Thai elephant reserve. The video captures the deep bond between the two ...

A sweet rescued baby elephant at a Thailand elephant reserve is going viral after a video captured the adorable calf racing to its former caretaker and immediately going in for a hug. It’s clear the ...

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Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestors, in Britain struck flint with pyrite and built a fire repeatedly in the same spot. Archaeologists studying the site think it is the ...