Tarzan has long since made pals of the chimps, but gorillas still have a terrible reputation. This is enhanced by the ...

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great ...

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In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Video captured in Coventry, England shows a gorilla bursting into laughter as a man tickles its foot. A University of Warwick study published on journal Nature on June 25 found that humans and great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Goodall with chimpanzee Nana at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, June 2004. Jens Schlueter/DDP/AFP via Getty Images Jane ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The vocal control underpinning human speech was not a sudden evolutionary leap, but a 15-million-year work in progress, according ...