Today, about 200,000 wild chimpanzees live in West and Central African rainforests. Researchers discover incredible way ...

The chimps who starred in "MVP" 25 years ago are long removed from wearing hockey gear, but the impacts of their show ...

Sometimes, we manage to spin new information in ways that will support our belief rather than change our minds. Just watch ...

Just like us, these apes invest most of their time in a few close friends while keeping looser ties with the rest.

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

In a case which the results would seem obvious to most people and make litigating it unnecessary, the Michigan Court of Appeals had to rule that ...

(AP) - Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

Early human interbreeding with our “cousins” the Denisovans and Neanderthals is an established fact but newly sequenced Neanderthal Y-chromosomes tell scientists that modern humans are the product of ...

Our hominid ancestors faced a Pleistocene world full of dangers—and apparently one of those dangers was lead poisoning. Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the ...