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

The stone selection process is a valuable way to differentiate between primate and hominin stone tools in the archaeological ...

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

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild ...

New research shows significant variation in the nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees, suggesting cognitive differences.

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

Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within their groups. This efficiency could also give them an evolutionary advantage, since better nutcracking ...

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 ...

Adolescent chimpanzees are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts. They live with mum until well into ...