Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a ...

During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the ...

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

Historical interbreeding between modern-day elephants and woolly mammoths was not necessarily impossible, but it is highly ...

A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

African gray foam-nest treefrogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) are common across the savannas and dry forests of southeastern Africa. Despite their unremarkable outward appearance, these small animals ...

The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about animal mating behaviors and get information, facts, and more about sexual ...