Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

At an archaeological site in Barnham, Suffolk, researchers uncovered remarkable evidence of the earliest known human-made ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

A full-grown male gorilla can weigh over 400 pounds — and most of it is muscle. But the size isn’t the real story. Gorilla muscle fibers are denser than a human’s and attach to thicker bones with far ...

As we reach the middle of 2020s, memes and pop culture are getting closer than ever. From dropping hundreds of dollars on ...

An inspiring collaboration is emerging in Uganda:Paying tourists are supporting the monitoring and protection of local ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

Impact on Gorilla Preservation When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...