A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson In the beginning, Jane Goodall named the chimpanzees. This was controversial. It was 1960, back when scientists weren’t ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda -- The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the chimps ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

A Washington D.C.-based nonprofit is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to consider a lawsuit that seeks to remove seven chimpanzees from an Upper Peninsula zoo and to legally recognize the primates as ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Two male chimpanzees eating the plum-like fruit of the evergreen Parinari excelsa tree at Taï National Park in the Ivory Coast in 2021. Credit: Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley and Taï Chimpanzee Project A ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling ...

Nov. 8, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...