“I once worked at an elevation of more than 5,000m in Bolivia and it was very difficult to breathe, eat and sleep.” Initially ...

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

Then they use the rudimentary spears, which are around 75 centimetres long, to stab bushbabies while they sleep in their ...

Jane Goodall was an English anthropologist and primatologist. Around the world, she was most known for her 65-year-long study of wild chimpanzees. She pioneered the research on chimpanzees and ...

Young chimps appear to be more innovative than scientists previously thought. They are capable of inventing tools and improving on those that adults use. Such abilities could help us better appreciate ...

Chimpanzees can weigh and rationalize conflicting information before deciding what to believe. That’s the main conclusion of research that tested whether our closest living relatives can do something ...

Primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, PhD, who died earlier this month at the age of 91, forever changed how we understand the natural world. In 1960, at what is now Gombe National Park in ...