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 ...

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 ...

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

Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different.

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 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 ...

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 ...