If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

From a dog that 'sees with its nose' to an eagle spotting humans kilometres away, animal senses work in fascinating ways. Find out the vision range of the following animals.

Think about the last time you saw a spider scurrying across your floor or a snake slithering through the grass. Your heart ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

Fish were discovered to make sounds more than 2,000 years ago, but they have gone largely unheard by humans. While a typical, ...

A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds, challenging previous assumptions and offering new insights into the evolution of animal communication. “This discovery opens an ...