An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain ...

Bow is believed to be the last chimpanzee kept as a private pet in the United States. He lives alone in Missouri while ...

Millions of years ago, a virus infected the ancestors of chimpanzees and left behind a genetic souvenir. Humans never ...

People in leadership positions tend to rate themselves as more risk-loving than those without leadership responsibilities—and ...

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers ...

Oliver became known after claims that he was a human-chimpanzee hybrid. The video follows his public attention, laboratory confinement, and the genetic testing that confirmed he was fully chimpanzee.

Camera-trap footage from Senegal shows adult chimpanzees handing tools and fruit to infants in what researchers interpret as ...

Learn how an ancient virus silenced a gene that helps young human nerve cells grow, leaving a lasting difference between our ...

But in his latest post, he made an appeal to people to help protect the habitat of these animals instead of watching a human and a chimpanzee fight.

A chimpanzee pulled a zookeeper away from a faulty electrical cabinet, then sat nearby until the rescue team arrived. The ...