World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has spent the last 40 years of her life traveling the world, sharing her ...

Humans may have taken over the planet with our amazing intellect, but that doesn't mean the animal kingdom is filled with ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Kanzi first learned to communicate with humans at Georgia State University ... I was Fangirl nervous and asked how I should greet him – with a pant grunt like in chimps? No, I was told. Just speak ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa ...

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee ...

Humans are capable of a great many things due in large part to the physical size of our brains. Our brain organs are simply much larger than that of chimps and apes, and the huge number of neurons ...

But in the same situation, when facing the easy task, the chimps seemed distracted, and their performance level dropped. “Humans under the watching eyes of colleagues care more about how the ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...