Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...

If you have ever broken a bone, you quickly learn two things: it hurts a lot, and bones are living tissue that takes time to ...

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

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Nine years after a "beloved" chimpanzee who starred in a series of adverts for PG Tips tea died a study has revealed ...

These animals were anesthetized and then surgically given 40-millimeter (1.6-inch) wounds, but the team also observed naturally occurring wounds among five captive chimpanzees. The team observed ...

Our new study, using techniques previously used only on human remains, reveals the fascinating life story of Choppers, a celebrity chimpanzee ... and elsewhere in her skeleton.

The story of the life of one of the PG Tips chimps has been told using analysis of her skeleton. Choppers was ... to reconstruct the lives of ancient human figures, such as Richard III but this ...

The life story of a chimpanzee who was cared for at a Leicestershire ... The technique has been used on humans like Richard III, whose remains were found in a Leicester car park, to understand ...

Johanson and Gray named their fossil skeleton Lucy, after the Beatles ... Orangutans are not as closely related to humans as chimps. But this behaviour was recently observed in wild chimpanzees ...

The bones of the skeleton soon separate and ... One of the biggest differences between modern humans and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos, is the relative length of ...