A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The ABQ BioPark’s ‘Great Ape-ril’, is an after hours adults-only event on April 18, 26 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Guests can explore behind the scenes in the gorilla building and ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on Earth is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study conducted across primates of Africa and Asia revealed that human patterns may be more damaging to great ape species ...

Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...

The TV naturalist remembers his first trip to see gorillas in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in 1978—and checks in on the ...

The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of adorable great apes that includes three chimpanzees and an orangutan. The infant was ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The BioPark is taking the month of April to celebrate the great apes they have in the zoo. As part of Great Ape-ril, the BioPark is setting up discovery stations so guests ...

Wildlife veterinarian Stephen Ngulu starts his typical working day watching from a distance as the chimpanzees under his care eat their breakfast. He keeps an eye out for runny noses, coughing or ...

An elephant in the street is now a common sight for Chinese residents of the animals' home territory on the Myanmar-Laos border, where a recovering elephant ...

New research from the University of Portsmouth has found that great apes exhibit exactness in mimicking one another's facial ...