Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...

Researchers identified the mechanism mice use to overcome instinctive fear, saying it may help research for people with ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Medical experts here in Illinois sat down with the I-Team to explain what they're doing to keep bird flu from becoming the next human pandemic.

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Male ruffs have the ability to eliminate excess sex hormones from their bloodstream. We often associate high testosterone ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...