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P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

So, why exactly was it so unpredictable in the air? Fortunately, US space agency NASA stepped in to investigate. NASA scientists at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

Squeaks, clicks, buzzes, and babbling, little is off the cards when it comes to the remarkable complexity of beluga communication, but perhaps most extraordinary of all is the way in which they can ...

“Theorists have long postulated for decades that the brain might be using unsupervised learning,” first author and research scientist at HHMI, Lin Zhong, told IFLScience. “Humans definitely employ ...

A sia’s oldest elephant has died at the astonishing age of over 100. While elephants are known for their long lifespans, it's ...

The product Is hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, sixty percent greater than the previous record-holder, and challenges ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

A new study has pinpointed when the gender gap in math ability appears – and it seems like your first-grade teacher holds ...

Despite seeing it every day though, psychologists at Johns Hopkins University have found that most people can't recognize, and are often completely unaware that two forms of the lower-case letter g ...