Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

A new study suggests humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways dating back 15 million years. Many other ...

Gorillas are very intelligent creatures who experience many of the same emotions that humans do. Some of these heightened emotions can lead to arguments. But as one gorilla learned, sometimes things ...

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says she doesn't enjoy killing the snakes, she just knows it's a necessity.

For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities evolved. Much of the research is based on the idea that if a particular ...

Kiyomasa the gorilla has gone viral after being filmed in a human-like 'thinking pose' following a reported disagreement at a Japanese zoo ...

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

Guided by the biologists and experts that accompany National Geographic Expeditions, wildlife watching goes from memorable to ...

Human evolutionary science has long been caught up in a debate: Did our last common ancestor with apes walk on its knuckles, like chimpanzees do, or was it more flat-handed? The answer to that ...