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

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

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

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 ...

Humans have certain instinctive fear reactions to things that won’t actually harm us—we might jump at a too-loud noise or ...

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

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.

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

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...