The kick-off signal for puberty begins in the brain. Specifically, in the hypothalamus, where specific neurons release a ...
Earth’s disastrous 10th tipping point has been identified These are the top 11 private landowners in the US I googled my long-lost father's name. My stomach dropped when I saw what he'd done. How ...
The seven–month–old Japanese macaque was born at Ichikawa Zoo last year, where he was rejected by his mother. Zookeepers gave him a stuffed orangutan toy, who he quickly formed a bond with – with ...
Dr. Temple Grandin’s pragmatic approach to giving farmed animals a life worth living has defined her advocacy efforts over the past half century. From squeezing herself into a stock chute at her ...
Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed, researchers estimate that over 99.9% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. What, then, are the true costs and benefits of sex? Yet again, this simple example ...
A boxer crab mother relies on living anemones for defense. See how jungle animal parents raise children by mastering their environment. An orangutan spends eight years teaching her baby the ways of ...
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists ...
The peak of La Danta—one of the world's largest pyramids—pokes through the forest canopy. "All this was abandoned nearly 2,000 years ago," says archaeologist Richard Hansen. "It's like finding Pompeii ...