Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was hurtling towards extinction. She was one of the Trimates, a trio of female primatologists that included Jane ...

Jane Goodall documented chimpanzees performing rhythmic, repetitive movements at waterfalls — behavior she described as ...

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It ...

The L.A. Zoo recently welcomed five baby great apes: three chimps, one orangutan and a gorilla. The breeding process can be lengthy and includes tactics like taking primates off birth control and ...

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...