Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

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

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

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

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

I think of it as a scale of 0-100% ape… perhaps some moments require 50/50 ape/human, other times only 10% ape. We’re interested in blurring the lines about what makes us human vs. animalia.