His immensely popular, and controversial, 1967 book, “The Naked Ape,” argued that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives. By Douglas Martin Desmond Morris, an English zoologist who used ...

Every time we get a trailer for a new Planet of the Apes movie, people wonder just where the latest film in the venerable series takes place in the Apes timeline. From the Andy Serkis trilogy to the ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (Egypt) and the University of Southern California (U.S.) describe ...

An ape habitat at the Memphis Zoo is temporarily closed after a group of guests taunted the ape, who then broke an interior glass. The moment was captured on camera and has since gone viral. The ...

A bonobo cracked the glass while lunging at visitors at the ape enclosure at the Memphis Zoo on Thursday, Feb. 26 The incident resulted in a "prolonged closure" of the bonobo exhibit The primate was ...

The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative Imagination—the ability to conjure up ideas, images or scenarios that don’t exist in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem ...

Scientists once thought only humans could use their imagination, but a new study suggests apes can, too. During a series of experiments, scientists discovered a bonobo called Kanzi could engage in ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

The terms “ape,” “great ape,” “monkey,” “primate,” and “gorilla” are often used interchangeably, but they describe very different groups within the animal kingdom. While gorillas are a type of ape, ...

Great apes are humans’ closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on the planet is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...