Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

Today, Zoo Miami celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties ...

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

According to YouGov surveys, 15 per cent of British men and 22 per cent of US men believe they could beat a chimpanzee in a ...

Picture a place where over 1,700 animals roam across habitats so vast they feel like slices of distant continents ...

Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in ...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believe are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — dating back hundreds of thousands of ...

In late 2025, Interpol coordinated a global operation across 134 nations, seizing roughly 30,000 live animals, confiscating ...