A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual.

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking ...

Researchers Watched Chimp Teenagers for Years and the Behavior Looked Strangely Familiar ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would-hold onto it, study it and refuse to let it go. A new study has found that ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), also known as chimps, are one of our closest living relatives and members of the great ape family, along with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and humans. Chimps share 98.7 ...

Chimps’ love for crystals could help explain our ancestors’ fascination with the shiny stones. The forerunners of modern humans collected crystals for which they had no apparent use, say scientists.

The researchers pointed out that the chimps tested in the study are used to contact with humans and familiar with objects not found in the natural world, so future experiments should be carried out ...