Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fongoli chimps, such as Pistache seen here, exhibit unique behaviours including soaking in pools, cooling off in caves and the ...

It is an uncommon privilege to have a career driven by passion. Those of us who devote ourselves to the protection and conservation of the natural world share that good fortune. We know that our work ...

January has a reputation for being a bad month at the movies. After a crowded theatrical window during the holiday season, January is the time for bottom-of-the-barrel releases and big screen gambles ...

A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel. The rare ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

The death of a possible genius was reported this week. Ai, a chimpanzee who was born in West Africa and came to the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan when she was a year old, has ...