Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

Are humans the result of a pig and a chimpanzee mating? Maybe, says Eugene M. McCarthy, who holds a Ph.D. in genetics from ...

A team of anthropologists at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, working with a ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

There are plenty of ways to spice up a biopic, a genre of film often derided for being exasperatingly formulaic. You can play ...

This stunner of a profile from Michael Gracey, the director of "The Greatest Showman," might finally get Americans to tune ...

In a study published in 2022, researchers discovered how primates reacted to that shift, looking at the behavior of bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, and olive baboons, and finding that ...

It’s also possible that sudden extinction events such as nuclear war or even another massive asteroid could wipe out these species—including humans and apes—even sooner. That begs the ...

Tonia Haddix has recently gained notoriety as the focus of new viral HBO docuseries “Chimp Crazy,” which explores her actions and broader issues related to the private ownership of exotic animals.

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of ...

It's another twist in the emerging threat of the H5N1 virus, widely seen as the most likely cause of the next pandemic ... they could pass on the virus to humans. "It's very important, now ...

Tal and Oren Alexander, top real estate brokers and brothers who began at real estate firm Douglas Elliman, and their brother Alon, were arrested Wednesday morning on human trafficking charges Oren ...