In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Goats have outperformed sheep and alpacas in a series of cognitive tests, suggesting they’re the sharpest minds in the ...

Ants are a wildly successful sector of nature’s bestiary, accounting for maybe a quarter of all terrestrial animal matter—the same percentage of biomass that we humans can claim. They’re ...

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul Garland The next time you find yourself lost in thought while gazing at a fireplace ablaze or even a solitary ...