What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Saturday marked the first day of the ABQ BioPark's Great Ape-Ril series, introducing zoo-goers to the our closest relatives ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Romina Bergman, 2, reaches her hand out to chimpanzee Yoshi's newborn at the Los Angeles Zoo. Every morning while the great apes ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably similar vocalizations during play that share evolutionary origins with human ...

The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of adorable great apes that includes three chimpanzees and an orangutan. The infant was ...

A junior at Carlson High School in Gibraltar is spreading kindness one box at a time, creating an organization that provides all-in-one birthday celebration kits to children in need across the ...

Understanding dire conservation status of great apes in Southeast Asia ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos have mainly type A blood, while orangutans have A, B, AB, and O. Gorillas, however, appear to have blood types that do not fit the ABO system. In all great apes, red blood ...

Officials at the Indianapolis Zoo responded to a great ape escape on Friday. Guests were moved to secure locations and the zoo was locked down until the chimp’s recapture. A chimpanzee escaped its ...

A new review of recent studies shows that chimpanzees use some of the same medicinal plants as humans. In Uganda, the great apes have been observed applying plants with known beneficial phytochemicals ...

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine and other essentials. She tosses carrots, celery and other fibrous treats ...