Recent archaeological discoveries have shed light on how ancient humans survived a massive climate crisis triggered by a ...

The Illumination Discovery Hub at the University of Wisconsin held their monthly academic lecture, Crossroads of Ideas, Nov.

Wild animals that have acquired adaptations to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme conditions may provide answers to some of the most pressing problems in the field ...

Chimpanzees are adapted to live across diverse habitats in Africa, but little is known about the potential adaptation of chimps in different environments. A new study has found that these apes possess ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...

A person interacts with a custom-built Minecraft environment used to study adaptive social learning in a virtual foraging experiment. This study, published in Nature Communications, was designed to ...

Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the ...

A female grey seal tending to her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Gray seals only nurse their pups for 15-20 days before the female leaves and the pup must learn to forage on its own.