Although there have been dozens of cases of human foot-and-mouth reported worldwide, the only previous UK case happened in 1966 in Northumberland. A 35-year-old man, Bobby Brewis, a farm machinery ...

Prof Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus of human origins at the American ... With Little Foot, the brain was the same size as a chimpanzee's. It was only later in evolution that the brain grew ...

but not by as much as we often think The greater strength of chimpanzees, relative to humans, may have been explained by American scientists. A study suggests the difference is mostly due to a ...

A few years ago, while setting up camp deep in the Congolese rain forest, Dave Morgan and Crickette Sanz heard a party of male chimpanzees ... the club to her foot and swings around to the other ...

Van Boekholt, who is a PhD researcher at the University of Osnabrück, studied footage he took of the ... their own individual signs. Chimpanzees in captivity also learn new gestures but always in ...

That is, until this latest expedition, when the National Geographic team, which included “Free Solo” co-director Jimmy Chin, discovered a foot inside what they believe is Irvine’s boot.

Human encroachment has not turned chimpanzees and bonobos into warmongers bent on violence and infanticide as many people have theorized. The behavior comes naturally, report 30 international ...

Humans have transmitted Covid-19 to "a panoply of species", but chimpanzees and gorillas, so biologically similar to humans, are particularly at risk. From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

Chimpanzees communicate at a pace similar to humans. A new study published in "Current Biology" suggests that the fundamental principles of language could have evolved earlier than previously thought.

Residents of the West African country of Guinea are in shock after a chimpanzee snatched an 8-month-old baby from its mother's hands, severely mutilated it with a rock and then left it dead.

For the first time, humans have repaid some of the massive debt owed to chimpanzees who have been used in clinical trials to develop drugs. Scientists at Kyoto University’s Wildlife Research ...