NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Isaiah Saxon, writer and director of The Legend of Ochi, about chasing the mysteries of nature, ...

However, observations by Dr. Surbeck and his team, and those of other researchers, challenge the harmonious stereotyping of ...

Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study ...

If there were a contest for the biggest female bullies in the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. In ...

For the first time, researchers have filmed chimpanzees in the wild sharing fermented African breadfruit, which contains ...

Scientists have caught wild chimpanzees not only eating naturally fermented fruits containing alcohol but actively sharing ...

A group of chimps have been filmed sharing alcoholic breadfruit, in the first example of wild primates having a booze-up on ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Research study explores how genetic changes shaped the variety seen across primates — from brain development and body size to diet, vision, movement and survival in extreme environments.

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Discover the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens, shedding light on early mammalian evolution, its arboreal lifestyle, ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...