From an ontogenetic perspective, young chimps’ brains are wired to absorb information rapidly. This trait is crucial for ...

Simple safety measures like masks, distancing, and quarantine are helping protect chimpanzees from human-borne diseases.

Scientists from City St George’s, University of London created a terrifyingly realistic android head to determine whether ...

Chimpanzees drum rhythmically, suggesting the roots of human musicality may predate our species. New research by cognitive ...

As such, the skeleton offers a window on what the last ... "It shows that the last common ancestor with chimps didn't look like a chimp, or a human, or some funny thing in between." ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can "catch" yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research ...

"Ideally, future work will figure out how to model the non-skeletal components of chimpanzee birth, which may someday lead us to modeling birth in human ancestors," VanSickle suggested.

we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called ...

Living hominoids are commonly divided into two families: Hylobatidae (gibbons) and Hominidae (gorillas, chimpanzees and humans). Showing a skeleton with a humanlike skull and arms that stretch ...

Scientists observed chimpanzees in Uganda appearing to clean and treat both their own wounds and those of others. Scientists ...

Lucy’s remains, which are all skeletal, only tell us so much ... Wiseman’s reconstruction hits on the human and the chimp in Lucy. “Her results suggest Lucy was both more human-like and ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...