WASHINGTON (TNND) — Punch the Monkey quickly grabbed the hearts of millions around the world. As more photos and videos of ...

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

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A new scientific study found that chimpanzees are drawn to crystals, suggesting "woo" hobbies may be hardwired into us.

Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated by crystals. Archaeological evidence suggests our ancestors have treasured small quartz and calcite stones for at least 780,000 years, often bringing them ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Kyoto University’s Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior has launched a memorial website for Ai, a chimpanzee known as a “genius” for her cognitive abilities, after she died at the age ...

The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a ...

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...

Scientists in Spain investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors.

More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along ...

In experiment 1, the crystal was placed on a pedestal which had been installed months prior to the experiments, so it did not constitute a novelty for the chimpanzees.