An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

When chimpanzees reach adolescence, life becomes very different from what they've experienced so far — they must find their place in the complex social world of adults. Rachna Reddy, a biological ...

The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees ...

Study finds some chimps twice as skilled at nut-cracking, highlighting 25 years of research on intelligence and tool use.

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...

Two infant chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, home to primates. Chimpanzees and mountain gorillas may share similar ...

Two chimpanzees beat a macaque to death after he entered their enclosure at Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, reports said Thursday. The macaque, also known as a Formosan rock macaque, is endemic to Taiwan.

Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within their groups. This efficiency could also give them an evolutionary advantage, since better nutcracking ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...