A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

The modern Planet of the Apes film series, which launched with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is one of the more unlikely Hollywood success stories in recent memory. Breathing new life into ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

In this case, University of Tübingen paleoanthropologist Madelaine Böhme and colleagues propose, Buronius was a previously unknown species of hominid, or great ape, that lived in warm forests ...

Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special feet with long toes for grasping branches ...

There's a lot of monkeying around at the Philadelphia Zoo these days now that the newest white-handed gibbon is growing up.

It’s the first time that different species of ape, each with a distinctive body style and diet, have been found coexisting outside of Africa, researchers say. Based on the size and shape of ...