Gorillas are one of our closest living relatives, sharing approximately 98.4% of our DNA. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, they belong to the great apes or Hominidae family. The last ...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

The internet's latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Persian cats and pug dogs evolved nearly identical flat faces due to human breeding. This convergence makes them look similar ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of ...

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and 'smushed' faces, so they're more similar to each other than they are to ...