Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

Excavations in a section of a Bavarian clay pit produced 37 fossils from the ancient ape, dubbed Danuvius guggenmosi ... Böhme’s team reports online November 6 in Nature. Earlier research ...

Fascinating study reveals the self-awareness of wild baboons. Learn how scientists tested whether baboons can recognize ...

This is the epic story of three women who embarked on lifelong journeys to study and protect humanity’s closest living relatives: the great apes. That is, the other great apes. Humans are ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first ...

World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation ... of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome. Nature 437, 69-87 (2005).

He thought that they would be more patient.” In She Walks With Apes, a documentary from The Nature of Things, we explore the research of these three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. “Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in ...