In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

Wild chimpanzees in Africa have been observed beating out rhythms on trees using their hands and feet. They drum on the large roots (‘buttresses’) that spread out from a tree's base, creating deep, ...

Explore how evolution shaped our brains to lie, revealing the complex interplay between deception, survival, and social ...

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

British primatologist and environmental icon Jane Goodall has died of natural causes in California at the age of 91. She turned zoology on its head with her observations in Tanzania's Gombe National ...

Intelligence comes in many forms, and some animals possess abilities that rival our own in surprising ways. Chimpanzees use ...

Have you ever watched an animal do something so familiar that it made you stop and stare? Maybe it was a dog looking guilty ...

The population of Gombe National Park’s chimpanzees has fallen by nearly 50 percent since the early years of research by Jane ...

ARUSHA: TANZANIA National Parks (TANAPA) has intensified conservation measures to protect chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, ...

A pioneering longitudinal study reveals great ape cognition is highly individualized and structured completely differently than human intelligence.

If we decide they do matter, when in fact they don't, we risk wasting limited resources that would be better spent elsewhere.