Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

Octopuses are skilled escape artists, with some even escaping their enclosures and swimming all the way back to the wild. Their jailbreaking is less surprising in light of the fact that they have a ...

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Bonobo apes are very similar to the more widely recognized chimpanzees—a smaller species of ape native to the Congo region of ...

Scientists have been studying the 'alien mummies' for about six years, finding new details that prove 'they are 100 percent ...

NAIROBI ― Understanding the genetic traits of chimpanzees and how they help them adapt to unique conditions in different ...

The cheerful Duke Dennis is walking around, holding hands with an orangutan, and getting in the car like best buddies! Bet ...

“You can't get the chimps to spit in a tube and send it off to 23 and Me," said Arizona State University professor and study co-author Kevin Langergraber. He says the team found genetic differences ...

Humans are known to invent private hand ... “There’s only 1 percent of DNA difference between us and chimps, right?” Dr. Pika added. “So why are we always making up these big gaps instead ...

Scientists have uncovered a curious behavior in humans’ closest living relatives. While every aminal needs to relieve itself, new research shows that chimpanzees, who share 98 percent of their DNA ...