A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

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

The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium mapped the 3 billion nucleotides that compose the genetic material of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the only nonhuman primate to have ...

They live with mum until well into their teens, are sometimes a bit cheeky and, being highly social animals, struggle to ...

Populations of common chimpanzees, which used to roam across 26 countries in equatorial Africa, have plummeted since the ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

Amandine Lions, a volunteer at the Papaye International association, carries Tchossa, a young orphaned chimpanzee on her back during their daily walk Populations of common chimpanzees, which used ...