Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

Bono has never been backwards in coming forward, especially when it comes to God. He doesn’t mumble about “spiritual energy” ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

These differences also offer valuable insights into the diversity of social strategies in primates, including humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos are physically similar and belong to the genus Pan, family ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

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The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts - from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain - have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...