Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...