Previous research has shown that chimps have their own signature drumming style. A new analysis of 371 bouts of chimpanzee ...

A new study finds humanity's closest living relatives will chew plants and apply makeshift poultices to wounds, and use ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Who would win a no-rules fight between 100 average men and one adult male gorilla? The debate has exploded across Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Some say that if humans once hunted mammoths, ...

The Republic of the Congo is a precious land, home to the heart of the world’s second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin — ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

Having separated from us around five to seven million years ago, they provide us with the closest picture of what our last ...