If it weren't for Sultan and his primate clan, the study of animal behavior would have taken a very different path. Sultan, a ...

A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own ...

Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and ...

Goodall also launched projects under JGI to support young African girls by offering them access to reproductive health education and through scholarships to finance their college education. Goodall ...

A University of Auckland scientist has uncovered the fates of chimpanzees who starred in seminal psychological studies of the ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

Britt Hertz hosts a thrilling challenge as elite female gymnasts push their limits to master the most demanding maneuvers ...

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Extraordinary new discoveries are suggesting, for the very first time, that archaic (non-Homo-sapiens) early human society ...

The scientists who study marmots at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic, Colo., have cooked up some interesting ways ...

Mules are remarkable animals. The hybrid combination of a female horse and a male donkey, the mule, has been in service to mankind since ancient times. They were first mentioned ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.