To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between ...

An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees ...

Study finds some chimps twice as skilled at nut-cracking, highlighting 25 years of research on intelligence and tool use.

When chimpanzees reach adolescence, life becomes very different from what they've experienced so far — they must find their place in the complex social world of adults. Rachna Reddy, a biological ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...

Limbani, an 8-year-old male chimpanzee that PETA rescued, appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Tiger King" and the HBO ...

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

Two chimpanzees beat a macaque to death after he entered their enclosure at Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, reports said Thursday. The macaque, also known as a Formosan rock macaque, is endemic to Taiwan.

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...