Using over 30 years of observations, scientists have described for the first time how this "exceedingly rare" split arose.

For a long time, scientists judged animal intelligence by how closely it resembled human behavior. That left a lot unnoticed.

The newest sci-fi movie on this list is from 2016, yet each movie still feels eerily current, from the subject matter to the ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

​Crows ​Wild crows are far more observant than the average passerby might think, especially when it comes to identifying ...

But the case was considered an anomaly, although there is genetic evidence suggesting this kind of split is a rare event ...

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat ...

Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...

New research from the University of Portsmouth has found that great apes exhibit exactness in mimicking one another's facial ...

Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels ...

From Phil Collins to Ringo Starr, many of the most skilled musicians have demonstrated the ability to drum while singing. Now, a study has revealed that chimpanzees have this skill too. Scientists at ...