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Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all moneys and apes.

Footage showing safari vehicles packed with tourists following closely behind a large tiger has drawn criticism for an obvious reason.

Tyler Zanella, a paraprofessional with Colorado's Poudre School District, has been charged with three counts each of felony assault against an at-risk juvenile, misdemeanor assault, and misdemeanor knowingly or recklessly causing child abuse. Police say video captured Zanella striking a kindergarten student with disabilities on a school bus on at…

Dog owners often ask why their pet sits facing away from them instead of toward them. Here's what a veterinarian thinks about this behavior.

AI designed in the future could have a deeply sinister objective: Change voting behavior, wreck democracy

If a cat kneads on your lap, it's likely because it feels safe around you. But why do they knead in the first place?

The Yankees manager says he’s “not going to change” his behavior, which has gotten him thrown out more often than anybody else in the past 62 years.

For more than a decade, Texas has been trying to slim down its youth prison system, which has been plagued by years of abuse scandals. This Legislature is reversing that course.

This article (which I serialized several months ago) is now out in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty. The Introduction: Craig is trying to force Danielle to do something, by explicitly or implicitly threatening to criminally retaliate if she doesn't go along. And, as often happens, Craig's threatened crime…