Giant, flesh-eating plants have long fascinated the public imagination, from the bloodthirsty bud in Little Shop of Horrors to the piranha plants in Super Mario Bros. In the natural world, carnivorous ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the diets of early humans. The discovery challenges a long-standing belief—that ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...

Wild gorillas eat the same tree bark used by traditional healers, which can inhibit the growth of E. coli in petri dishes, according to a new study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...