We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Language Connection: Researchers discovered a neuronal connection related to language in chimpanzee brains, previously ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as those of other primates, which may come down to our lack of fur ...

The internet's latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male ...