A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse—but the athletes they are ...

A new study shows female bonobos team up to fend off males in the wild. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in ...

In a comprehensive study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, researchers tracked 244 wild-derived ...

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...

John Swinney is facing renewed calls to remove trans-identified male prisoners from women’s jails after the Supreme Court’s ruling on the ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of ...

The decision means trans men can be exluded from men’s single-sex spaces – but may also be excluded from women’s spaces.

A new book explains much of what is known about these diverse animals, including pleasure and sex—as well as the downsides of our misleading perceptions of these sentient beings.