New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

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In some tourism hot spots, feeding the primates, known as “provisioning”, is deliberate but regulated, ensuring tourists see ...

This created a catalogue that identified 22 discrete facial expressions. These included expressions from a range of aggressive, friendly, playful and alert interactions.

Horses have a lot of facial muscles, like primates. Serhii Hromov/Shutterstock. We observed groups of domestic horses out at pasture. Whenever they interacted with one another we would hit record ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

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While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

The monkeys could be very violent and aggressive with each other, ... Humans regrew their skin at around 0.25mm per day, while the other primates and mammals exceeded this.

Researchers investigated whether baboon progressions form to avoid predators or whether it's a leadership bid — but now ...