Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These configurations appear to play a key role in regulating cellular processes ...

Chimpanzee consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo. Together with humans, gorillas and orangutans they are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes). (Pan ...

A sequel that everyone expected to just be meh…and then some people thought it was meh? Seems unlikely. But let's take a walk through it. Here's everything right with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Vanessa Wilson from the University of ...

Tiny knee bone missing from almost all great apes The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also analysed the medical literature on knees involving 93 primate species.

Now researchers from King’s College London (KCL) have found that the small bone, which is buried in the tendon behind the knee, evolved in a unique way in early humans compared to primates such ...

Scientists have warned that mining of the metals needed for the global clean energy transition could threaten Africa’s already beleaguered great apes unless strong conservation measures are ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed a previously unknown species of great ape, Buronius manfredschmidi, that inhabited the region approximately 11.6 million years ago during the late ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of great ape which lived 11 million years ago and only ever grew to the size of a human toddler, making it the smallest known to science. The now-extinct ...

Wes Ball ’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is not just an ape story like the Caesar-led Apes trilogy of the 2010s. Kingdom is just as much a human story, and Freya Allan ’s Mae is the human ...

Freya Allan, the main human star in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, couldn’t keep her emotions in check as she watched the latest installment of the iconic franchise for the first time. “I ...

So it goes with the people and the apes over the course of a franchise that has grown to 10 films overall, starting with the 1968 classic. Sometimes the apes are in charge, sometimes the humans ...