A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives ...

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness and complexity of their lives — and of their intelligence. Today, on World ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

Chimpanzees are one of the closest relatives to humans, but they are also significantly stronger, with some estimates ...

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...

We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and ...

A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil ...

You’ve probably heard the old myth that chimpanzees are twice as strong as humans. It’s the kind of claim that resurfaces during conversations about evolution, primal instincts, or alongside the ...

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and ...

Unraveling the mystery of human evolution, thirty-five feet in the air. A chimpanzee female (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sleeps in a nest built in a tree in Uganda's Kibale National Park. The ...