Biologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark ...

Watch a unique cooking experiment where ribs are prepared using the heat from a car engine as an unconventional outdoor ...

The largest great ape cognition dataset combines 18 years of studies to reveal patterns in learning, memory, and intelligence ...

Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold ...

We were pleasantly surprised by how strong and seemingly natural the chimpanzees’ attraction to crystals was.” ...

Modern humans continue to be drawn to crystals, sometimes attributing healing or spiritual powers to them. But this study, ...

"The way they ‘studied' it there, turning it over to observe it from different angles, was amazing." ...

Scientists speculate that human eyes stand out more than chimpanzee eyes because there’s an advantage for humans in being ...

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a lethal civil war over the past several years — findings that could help ...

Two adult male members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group at Kibale National Park form a coalition and chase off other males. via REUTERS They’re going apes – – t. A scenic Ugandan jungle has become a ...

The largest group of wild chimpanzees known to scientists has permanently split in two. In a study published in Science, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions ...