One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state's schools can teach ...

New research finds old age likely impacts the habitual tool-use behaviours of some wild chimpanzees, and the extent to which different individuals are affected is highly variable.

A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a ...

One aspect of Monkey Jungle that can’t be captured in photographs is its multisensory nature. The soundscape alone is worth experiencing – a symphony of primate calls ranging from the high-pitched ...

Researchers reported that the animals are capable of making very deliberate gestures to communicate their desire for more.

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the ...

Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...

Analysis - South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that gorillas primarily live on the ground. Researchers discovered that ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people will colloquially call it an ape. Apes can be split into two families: ...

Inner ear of 6-million-year-old ape fossil reveals clues about the evolution of human movement Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion ...

Our animal nature is undeniable. But is beastly behavior inevitable? The answer may lie in a look at the animal side of the evolutionary tree.