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

The stone selection process is a valuable way to differentiate between primate and hominin stone tools in the archaeological ...

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

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

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene ...

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

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild ...

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 ...

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

New research shows significant variation in the nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees, suggesting cognitive differences.