What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Researchers have identified a new species of great ape that lived around 11 million years ago, finding that it had a somewhat unusual living situation. The great apes, or hominids, are a family of ...

Great apes, such as bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), exhibit remarkably enduring social memories. In one notable experiment, a bonobo was able to recognize her sister after ...

A recent study conducted across primates of Africa and Asia revealed that human patterns may be more damaging to great ape species than we previously believed. Activities such as urbanization, ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived ...

The study of gestural communication in great apes has provided a rich insight into the evolutionary roots of human language. Apes typically employ an extensive repertoire of innate gestures that are ...

If great apes are known for anything, it’s being great in size. A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus was likely a hundred pounds or so ...

A chimpanzee watching a video of an agent (left) brushing the hair of a patient (right). Red circles indicate her gaze fixations, and red lines indicate attentional switching between agent and patient ...