Dryopithecus lived in the warm forests of Miocene Europe and remains difficult to place within the great ape family tree. Fossils from France, Spain, and Austria show a fruit-eating ape with ...

Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.

This '80s Tarzan movie was an Oscar-nominated prestige picture at the time it was released but it's mostly forgotten about ...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes completely flipped the script on the sci-fi franchise, reviving it for a new generation.

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past. Stump-tailed macaques grooming a dog in ...

A conversation with David Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, about how to sleep ...

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

Early humans may have spread across the Americas by specializing in giant prey such as mammoths, ground sloths, and gomphotheres.

Anthropic's newest risk assessment describes its own AI agents doing things most safety disclosures sanitize: killing rival agents to claim shared resources, disguising restricted network requests as ...