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, ...

They have managed to move many former pets and performers to sanctuaries, and their efforts helped make Eli the last great ape to work in Hollywood. But nearly 80 chimps remain in private hands ...

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

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

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

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

Tonia Haddix, the star of HBO’s Chimp Crazy who allegedly faked the death of one of her apes, was accused of perjury by animal rights group PETA who have asked a judge to bring charges against her.

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Andy Serkis took on the persona of an ape and read a defiant letter "written" in 1929 by a chimpanzee to a scientist ...