A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own ...

World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are two closely related species of great apes and share much of their DNA with humans. Though they appear similar, they differ significantly in behavior, social structure, and ...

Trading wild chimpanzees, including their meat and body parts, is illegal. And yet, social media influencers and companies still reap profits from sharing "cute" images and videos of chimpanzees and ...

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty to adulthood quickly, but humans linger ...

Chimpanzees — they’re just like us. Female chimps, it turns out, go through menopause, and go on to live long (and, one hopes, fulfilling) lives afterward. A new paper published today in Science ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. Scientists suspect this ancient ...

The females in a group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the first non-human primates to be documented experiencing menopause. The finding, published today in Science 1, deepens the mystery of ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...