A massive decade-long study of Western Equatorial Africa's gorillas and chimpanzees has uncovered both good news and bad about our nearest relatives. The good news: there are one third more western lowland gorillas and one ...
Ecology
Apr 25, 2018
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Our closest biological relatives, the African apes, are the only animals that walk on their knuckles; CWRU researchers discovered why
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2018
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the brightest mammal of them all?
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2018
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New research suggests that the last common ancestor of apes—including great apes and humans—was much smaller than previously thought, about the size of a gibbon. The findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2017
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It's a familiar problem: you leave the house and while closing the door, the question whether the stove was turned on or off pops up in your head. Although annoying, this problem could easily be solved by turning around and ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2017
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Apes' intelligence may be entirely misunderstood, because research has so far failed to measure it fairly and accurately, according to scientists.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2017
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The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find, announced in the scientific journal Nature on August 10th, belongs ...
Archaeology
Aug 9, 2017
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More than 170 years after Edgar Allan Poe's fictional raven croaked, "Nevermore," scientists are reporting that real-life ravens think about the future.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2017
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The orangutan population on the island of Borneo has shrunk by a quarter in the last decade, researchers said Friday, urging a rethink of strategies to protect the critically-endangered great ape.
Ecology
Jul 7, 2017
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The common lineage of great apes and humans split several hundred thousand years earlier than hitherto assumed, according to an international research team headed by Professor Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Centre ...
Archaeology
May 22, 2017
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