Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals,…

It turns out goats really do know that you’re trouble when you walk in. These domestic animals can distinguish human…

The indigenous people of Easter Island, the Rapa Nui, experienced a societal collapse after the 17th century because…

It’s very easy to look at an animal mimicking a human-like behavior and think “Wow! That animal is doing a human thing!…

Researchers at Queen Mary University in London peered into the beady square pupil eyes of a goat and asked the single…

Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new study,…

Oxytocin is often referred to as the "trust hormone," a claim that was reinforced by a 2005 study in which participants…

Can pretending to fly around like Superman inspire you to save the day? Does great power truly encourage great…

The wider a man's face is, the more likely he is to deceive others and cheat to get ahead...or so a new study claims.…

Would you trust this robot? It all depends on how well it is programmed to mimic the nonverbal gestures and tics that…

A long-simmering debate in sports is whether home-court advantage - an increase in performance when competing in…

Is chocolate as addictive as heroin? Possibly. In a new study, mice willingly subjected themselves to electrical…