Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why
Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild…
17-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil in Egypt Could Change What We Know About Human Origins
Reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis by Mauricio Antón. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Biruté Galdikas, Louis Leakey protégée who became the world’s foremost expert on orangutans – obituary
Alongside her studies of orangutans living in the wild, she established Camp Leakey as a care and rehabilitation…
Apes Were Kissing Millions of Years Before Humans, Study Suggests
While kissing might feel like one of the most natural things in the world, this familiar behavior is…
The Unexpected Reason Baboons March in Order
Baboons walking in progression on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. Credit: Vittoria Roatti Baboons have long puzzled scientists with…
Were Our Ancestors More Like Gorillas Than Humans? New Study Reveals Shocking Size Gap
New research by UAlbany anthropologist Adam D. Gordon finds substantial sexual dimorphism in some of our early human…
Finding DNA clues to the primate puzzle
Primates, which include humans, apes, monkeys and lemurs are diverse in traits like brain size, diet, locomotion and…