Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese macaques at Joshin-etsu National Park in Japan. (Peter Adams / Getty Images file) (Peter Adams) Humans are far from the ...

Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to its own wounds. A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was observed by German and Indonesian scientists chewing up the leaves of a ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A behavior that researchers had not observed before was not only documented in Hawaii waters but captured on film. And researchers were in for a surprise. Sex. It happens. And ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – In the salty creeks and marshes of the Lowcountry, a remarkable and rare feeding behavior unfolds, one that makes dolphins part-time beach goers – strand feeding. Strand ...

Trail cameras in Yellowstone National Park captured remarkable footage revealing how cougars adapted their hunting strategies after wolves returned to the ecosystem, showing the power of technology to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...

It's been over half a decade since scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to capture what they believed was the elusive "God Particle" that would help tie together a few loose ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its ...

Humans are far from the only primates engaging in same-sex sexual activity. A new study found instances in which 59 nonhuman primate species, including bonobos, chimpanzees and macaques, have taken ...