The plant the orangutan used to medicate is not usually eaten by the species, but it is known to humans as a pain reliever. This line of research, broadly, suggests that primates are capable of ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Today, herbalism and wild plant foraging has become an increasingly popular alternative to modern medicine. Herbal medicine is still widely used among American-Indian, Chinese and European populations ...

“We started really paying attention to how some of these plants were used traditionally in human medicinal knowledge systems and which bioactive properties they've been shown in the past to have ...

Ancient Saudi residents inhaled harmal smoke at home, revealing early psychoactive plant use and health practices.

She added that humans likely learned from these creatures and evolved a sense for medicinal plants in the past. And she suggested that pharmaceutical companies could use these animals’ knowledge ...