Humans walk heel-first far more consistently than chimpanzees, a strategy that may have helped our ancestors travel farther ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

Scientists conducted largest ever genetic analysis of geologically and ecologically diverse group of chimpanzees. Chimps are amazingly adaptable. Unlike other nonhuman primates, they live in a variety ...

According to a new study, chimpanzees, like humans, must contend with a confined bony birth canal when giving birth. In humans, the problem was exacerbated by our unique form of upright walking since ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of ...

Chimps have accents too, reveals a new study. Researchers found that chimpanzees develop dialect as youngsters. They ...

Nine years later, Erin Wessling can still remember the first time she visited Fongoli, a savanna in southeast Senegal. “You feel like you walk into an oven,” she said. Other WRAL Top Stories ...