We are calling on the U.S. Congress to fund care for the estimated 200 primates who will no longer be used in research ...

These are just a few of the stunning wildlife scenes captured in the 2025 Nature inFocus Photography Awards. In the forests ...

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome ...

Driving headlong into danger isn’t everyone’s choice for a holiday, writes Victoria Richards, but when you’re with the first female African Bush Camp guide in the Okavango Delta, facing what you’re af ...

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our ...

The human capacity for rational thinking makes us unique among the animal kingdom, according to wise, old Aristotle. However, ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley confirmed wild chimps consume the equivalent of two standard drinks per day from fermented fruit, ...

Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.

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Though chimpanzees and gorillas often coexist in the same areas, interactions of any kind are thought to be rare – those that ...

Scientists continue to study these creatures to understand how their minds work — and how evolution shaped their intelligence ...