We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, it is clear that humans are not done fighting against the apes, which implies that the new Planet of the Apesera is far from reaching its expected end goal.

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

With 10 films in the iconic sci-fi franchise that spans centuries of in-universe time, it's fair to wonder if the earlier ...

Hollywood's biggest night, the Academy Awards, arrives this weekend, but this year there's some monkey business going on.

The modern Planet of the Apes film series, which launched with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is one of the more unlikely Hollywood success stories in recent memory. Breathing new life into ...