Mar 5, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense,...

Oct 17, 2013 by News Staff

New research on vocalizations of wild chimpanzees has demonstrated that their alarm calls have numerous hallmarks of intentional communication. Chimpanzee...

Sep 9, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 6.1-million-year-old relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium...

Aug 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two biologists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology say that they have documented for the first time the swimming and diving behavior...

Jul 26, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study published online in the Journal of Human Evolution refutes a long body of evidence, suggesting that a 9-million-year-old ape called Oreopithecus...

May 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...

Aug 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers. A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has completed the genome...

May 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden studying the behavior of Santino the chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm has found that he uses...

Apr 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers observing and filming orangutans at a research facility in Indonesia has found that they may be smarter than previously thought. Wild...