Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's ...

Humans are social beings and complex emotions have always been a part of human evolution but did you ever wonder that some ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

The extinction of large animals led to the human brain growing, a new study reveals. When humans first emerged in Africa 2.6 million years ago the average animal size was more than 1,000 pounds, ...

These 7 animals demonstrate how humans are not the only creatures on the planet with a proverbial toolbox. It’s a common misconception that humans are the only species on Earth that uses tools. In ...

Evidence indicates that early humans may have acquired a taste for meat before they could cook it, or the tools that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals used. Early hominids have been eating meat long ...

The discovery of a 3 million-year-old toolkit suggests that humans were not actually the first to craft and use utensils. Researchers believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus ...

Animals are way smarter than we might actually imagine, be it chimpanzees making tools like mini engineers, parrots talking ...

Grief is usually thought of as a human emotion– the deep sadness we feel when we lose someone we care about. But animals can feel it too. Many species show signs of mourning and emotional pain.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in ...