Kanzi the bonobo is able to create and use stone tools

Newer Imaging Technique Brings ‘Glymphatic System’ to Light

Research suggesting that grey parrots can reason about cause and effect from audio cues alone- a skill that monkeys and dogs lack- is presented in Proceedings of the Royal Society B today.

Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose?

Four decades ago, in 1972, the Koobi Fora Research Project discovered the enigmatic fossilized skull known as KNM-ER 1470 which ignited a now long-standing debate about how many different species of early Homos existed.

One day in May of 2011, Shaun Winterton was looking at pictures of bugs on the Internet when something unusual caught his eye. It was a close shot of a green lacewing — an insect he knew well — but on its wing was an unfamiliar network of black lines and a few flecks of blue.

In a broader sense, it could also reveal more about why animals, including humans, do things that are potentially risky but that benefit someone else.

"In previous studies, she's managed to distinguish between two objects that differed in width by less than the thickness of a human hair."

This could be especially important for the development of treatments for slow-healing skin wounds in malnourished, hypothermic, diabetic and elderly patients.

Zebra stripes evolved to keep biting flies at bay