Chimpanzees are losing their homes, but it’s not too late. World chimpanzee day shows us why they matter and how we can help.

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

We can explain our brains, bones, and even balls... but this very visible part of us still has evolutionists stumped.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Here’s what muscle fibres, motor control, and a bit of adrenaline say about our place in the strength hierarchy ...

Chimpanzees adopt pointless fads, just like humans, researchers have found. The animals were seen wearing grass and sticks in ...

At the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, one group of captive chimps has taken to dangling grass out of their ears, a trend ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect.

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...