Great apes aren't so different from humans when it comes to certain social interactions, they too enjoy making funny faces, poking one another, randomly pulling hair and other forms of teasing ...

A new study suggests humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning they may retain an understanding of ape communication from their ancestors. CNN values your feedback 1.

Stock image of bonobos grooming. A scientist posits that kissing in humans could have its origins in the "final kiss" movement in ape grooming.

Results from the study found that humans were able to interpret ape gestures accurately a little more than 50% of the time. The apes, of course, have context for interpreting the gestures, but humans ...

A group of researchers recently discovered that these great apes use humor just like humans do. Erica Cartmill is a professor of anthropology at Indiana University studying primate humor.

By the end of his journey, Noa proves to be a compassionate and strong leader, working with apes and humans like Caesar would have. 1) Caesar. Of course, Caesar takes thhe #1 spot, ...

Foley and Mirazón Lahr discuss two plausible ghost models for extinct African apes based on the existing genomic evidence: a low-divergence and a high-extinction model. In the low-divergence model, ...

A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans ...

Researchers have found a new way in which great apes are similar to humans: they tease each other. A new study by an international team of scientists has documented “playful teasing” in ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during ...