If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

The half-humanoid-half-canine creatures look like something out of a cyberpunk game — or a fever dream. But they aren’t roving your nightmares (yet). Instead they are on the floor of one of the ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.

Michelle Spear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

From sticky seeds clinging to pant legs to silent hunters flying at night, animals solve problems in clever ways. Engineers study those survival tricks and turn them into tools, vehicles, and medical ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known representation of human-animal interaction. This incredible find pushes back the ...

The act of kissing is something we only really associate with our own species, but the practice has been observed in many modern primates; chimpanzees, macaques, baboons, and more have all been ...

Kissing, for all popularity, is a bit of a mystery. Scientists have long debated when humans’ ancestors first put their lips together, and whether the act is simply a cultural trait. A new study ...