Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.

Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

One striking example of toolset use comes from Congo, where chimps use a stout stick to bore a tunnel into the ground to ...

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills in a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26 in the ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...