A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own tools. Today their survival hangs by a thread, and the reasons why reveal just ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical know-how could hold the key to better appreciating the role of children in the ...

World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, suggesting their culture is cumulative. By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what ...

When Jane Goodall first reported that chimps use tools, our concept of human uniqueness was rocked. It has never quite recovered. In another twist, a population of wild chimps of the Kanyawara ...

Photo: Fernando Turmo July 14 marks World Chimpanzee Day, commemorating the day a young Jane Goodall first arrived in Gombe, ...

When Jane Goodall was just 26 years old, she witnessed something that changed the world's understanding of chimpanzees. The scientist, on a research assignment in Gombe, Tanzania, observed a chimp ...