People might often claim (or disprove) the idea that humans evolved from apes. The reality, though, is that evolution isn't ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented ...

The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration provided by researchers depicts Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China. The ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on Earth is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...

Africa’s great apes—from gorillas to chimpanzees and bonobos—are under far greater threat than scientists previously realized, a new study suggests. While primatologists and conservationists have long ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have identified a new species of great ape that lived ...

Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age. Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals. Now cognitive ...

A recent study suggests that playful teasing behaviors in chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans might serve a deeper purpose in social bonding. It seems playful pokes, tickling and fake-outs aren’t ...

WASHINGTON — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, ...