Siamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, ...

After a three-year closure due to flooding, South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have reopened ...

Human activities such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization are increasingly encroaching on the habitats of great apes.

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe ...

Explore the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa, home to ancient human ancestors and groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

At the Atlanta Science Festival in March, Dr. Jaap de Roode discussed his book, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes & Other ...

The primate was born April 15. Her name includes I, R and S. Not many creatures, humans or otherwise, make a big deal of ...

A new study explores how kissing evolved with the help of science, tracing it back to early grooming behaviors in ancient ...

P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

Across millions of years of evolution, from ape to upright, email-answering, independent individual humans have developed an internal clock of alertness and exhaustion, driven primarily by the light ...

It turns out that we animals who crave sugar have a very important historical biological need for it: Sugar means calories.