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.

Nearby, visitors marvelled at the weathered limestone rocks hanging from the ceiling of the caves, millions of years old.

He joins the likes of a returning franchise star Dan Stevens and fellow new recruits Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, Delroy ...

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.

A recent study revealed that humans' patterns may be more damaging to great ape species than we previously believed.

Bonobo communication isn't random — it's built on structure and meaning. Scientists have decoded vocal combinations that ...