Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

Shining Rock Classical Academy’s sixth-grade science classroom buzzed with excitement as students welcomed two special guests ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

The killer chimpanzee movie "Primate," in theaters Friday, delivers a woman vs. beast thriller with graphically violent ...

A finger-length fish has reignited a long-running debate about self-awareness, cognition and how much we’ve underestimated ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as ...

The mirror test has fascinated scientists for decades due to its simplicity and revealing nature. First introduced in 1970 by ...

SOME OLD FRIENDS. SO ABBY’S CARRYING IVY. SHE’S IVY’S FOSTER MOM, AND THEN FOLLOWING THEM AROUND. IS LOLA IN THE CHIMPANZEE FOREST AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE. THEY DON’T KNOW IT YET, BUT THE ...

By comparing the neural processing of vocalizations emitted by species close to humans, such as chimpanzees, bonobos and macaques, it is possible to observe what our brain shares, or does not share, ...

Chimpanzees are not just grabbing at food on instinct. In a new set of experiments, they changed their choices when stronger clues appeared and stayed the course when only weaker hints came in.

The Ngogo chimpanzees of Uganda's Kibale National Park have long been known for violent clashes with neighboring groups, often resulting in deaths—a phenomenon sometimes described as "chimpanzee ...