Uganda is a land of breathtaking biodiversity, home to some of the most extraordinary primate experiences in the world. While mountain gorillas in Bwindi often steal the spotlight, chimpanzee trekking ...

The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the ...

The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5 ...

Mining for minerals and metals essential to a clean energy future may have unprecedented impacts on apes. Areas with high densities of great apes—including gorillas, bonobos, and ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t mean our diets are anything alike. Here’s why. Our closest genetic relative is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor just 4 million years ago -- a much shorter time than current estimates of 5 million to 7 million years ago, according to a ...

A prehistoric hominin that lived more than four million years ago in Ethiopia may have climbed like a chimp and walked a bit like a human. Known as Ardipithecus ramidus – or Ardi for short – this ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.