Starfishlike brittle stars have five thin arms and no central brain, but even so, they move in a carefully coordinated fashion similar to four-limbed animals (including humans). A new analysis ...

From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of ...

New book by University of Montana biologist examines similarities between human weaponry and animal world, including some armaments that reduce likelihood of battle. Accessibility links.

We humans like to think of ourselves as a special bunch, but it turns out we have plenty in common with other animals. Math? A monkey can do it. Tool use? Hey, even birds have mastered that ...

OCTOPUS (1) at Munich Zoo Hellabrunn in Germany opens a jar of tasty crabs.Only a third of its neurons are in its central brain, the rest being distributed in its arms. If it is conscious, where ...

Researchers traced genes found in humans back to some of the earliest multicellular animals to roam Earth. The 555-million-year old fossils belong to oceanic creatures that predate the Cambrian ...