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 ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, ...

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

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

In this case, University of Tübingen paleoanthropologist Madelaine Böhme and colleagues propose, Buronius was a previously unknown species of hominid, or great ape, that lived in warm forests ...

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

The modern Planet of the Apes film series, which launched with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is one of the more unlikely Hollywood success stories in recent memory. Breathing new life into ...

It’s the first time that different species of ape, each with a distinctive body style and diet, have been found coexisting outside of Africa, researchers say. Based on the size and shape of ...

There's a lot of monkeying around at the Philadelphia Zoo these days now that the newest white-handed gibbon is growing up.