They presented young and adult apes with videos of either a human hand (a social model) or a mechanical claw (a non-social model) building a tower. The results showed that while adult apes ...

Fast-evolving DNA gives human neurons greater complexity than chimps, aiding cognition but also increasing disease risk. A ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

New research suggests that some animals may be developing primitive forms of language, challenging everything we thought we knew about intelligence and communication. From dolphins and apes to crows ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco found that parts of our chromosomes have evolved at breakneck speeds to give us an edge in brain development compared to apes. But it might also put us at risk for ...

Also, along with the 10 projects, writers, Kofi A. Oliver and Carrie Schrader have been awarded grants to bolster their ...

When Charlton Heston yelled, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” he helped launch one of the most ...

3.And here's Ham The Chimp, the first great ape (and the first chimpanzee) in space. NASA sent Ham out in 1961 after 15 ...

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In A Play”: 10 a.m. and noon Thursday and Friday, March 6-7, at the Metropolis Performing Arts ...

Animal experiments are not used to show that drugs are safe and effective in human beings - they cannot ... experiments in line with the three R principle of replacing, reducing and refining ...

Have you ever heard someone point to a broken-down car, refrigerator, or another piece of machinery and claim, “they just don’t make them like they used to”? According to the theory of retrogenesis, ...