We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

CGI primates from “Better Man” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” face off in this year’s Oscars race for best visual effects.

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

Hollywood's biggest night, the Academy Awards, arrives this weekend, but this year there's some monkey business going on.

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

This study is the first to explore social memory development in non-human great apes. It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in ...

A fascinating new book is an eye-opening journey into the many ways ants, apes, bees, bears, and other animals know how to ...

In his upcoming book, Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves, Emory University biologist Jaap de Roode takes the reader through a breezy and fun exploration into the ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

Chimp Haven, a Louisiana sanctuary for retired lab research animals, offers great apes another opportunity to live in nature. With over 200 acres for chimps to explore and 300 companions to get to ...