A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Humans are not the only animals that communicate. Birds sing to attract mates, dolphins use signature whistles that identify ...

Bonobo male Kikongo making 'happy' grin faces at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2010 Fiona Rogers / Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found ...

Chimps, gorillas and humans have been laughing the same way for millions of years, suggests new research. The great apes may have been chuckling with a similar rhythm to mankind for at least 15 ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds great apes share a laughter rhythm dating back 15 million years, offering clues to how human speech evolved. (CREDIT: ...

During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the ...

Laughter is one of the most familiar human sounds, but it may be much older and more commonly shared even among our closest relatives than we usually think. Recently, a new study added an interesting ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

Laughing might seem uniquely human, but our closest relatives in the animal kingdom do it too. A groundbreaking new study has ...

Hugging before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, say scientists studying apes.