Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

She worried that she was inadequate at love, until she became a mother. By Sasha Weiss ...

Animals are way smarter than we might actually imagine, be it chimpanzees making tools like mini engineers, parrots talking like pros, or crows filling up pots with stones to drink water. Intelligence ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows. When you purchase through links on our ...

Chimpanzees can weigh and rationalize conflicting information before deciding what to believe. That’s the main conclusion of research that tested whether our closest living relatives can do something ...

Families leave fingerprints on voices in every culture, yet few researchers had checked if that pattern holds with wild chimpanzee mothers and their offspring. A new field study says it does, and the ...

A new review of recent studies shows that chimpanzees use some of the same medicinal plants as humans. In Uganda, the great apes have been observed applying plants with known beneficial phytochemicals ...

If a chimp wants another to groom it, it will signal this with a long, hard stare and loud arm scratching. You can also tell how a chimp is feeling from its vocalizations, and chimps use sound to let ...

Chimpanzees are running around with grass in their ears and butts at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. This is the second time a bizarre fad-like behavior has gripped the sanctuary's chimps ...