As AI-driven projects like CETI chase the dream of decoding whale song, researchers tracking dugongs in the Andamans say the ...

Names are considered a human universal. No matter the language or culture, every human population has a naming system that ...

A new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may be able to distinguish between certain negative human emotions just by ...

It is a language that humans, animals, and nature share without uttering a single word. It is the language they speak in silence. Since 1945, The Shillong Times has evolved from a weekly tabloid to a ...

The blue whale is not merely the biggest animal alive today. At roughly 33 metres in length, it is the largest creature to ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of Bengalese finches ...

A clinical animal behaviourist on cats, their relationship to humans and how they let us know we're part of their gang ...

Scientists found that dogs’ and humans’ brain activity can synchronize during genuine social interaction, especially when eye ...

If a monkey climbs onto a deer and sprawls across its back, perhaps it is simply an odd, one-off encounter. Then another monkey carefully grooms a dog. Elsewhere, a group accepts a baby from another ...

Humans are the only animals whose faces redden with embarrassment. Should we see that as an affliction, or as a blessing?

A new novel helps explain why so many storytellers enlist animal narrators to explore humanity.

For most of human history, we treated animal communication as something simple, instinctive, and largely unknowable. A bark, a chirp, a rumble in the dark. We heard the sounds but assumed there was ...