Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living relatives, organize their social lives in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a new international study led by scientists from Utrecht ...

Bonobos, our evolutionary cousins in the primate family, may be able to use vocal sounds to communicate meaning in a way that had previously only been observed in humans, according to a study ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, appear to string together vocal calls in ways that mirror a key feature of the human language, a new study carried out in the forests of the Democratic ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Kanzi requests more frozen grapes. Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the bonobo who became famous for his ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

The lynching, captured on video deep in the jungle, sheds light on the reality of the animals. Females exert power over males ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...