A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

Remarkable new footage shows a wild gray wolf using a human crab trap with startling precision, challenging what we thought we knew about wolf intelligence.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Actor Gene Hackman, who died in February, aged 95, was prolific, acting in about 80 films, many of which he says he took for ...

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

Then they use the rudimentary spears, which are around 75 centimetres long, to stab bushbabies while they sleep in their ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson In the beginning, Jane Goodall named the chimpanzees. This was controversial. It was 1960, back when scientists weren’t ...

Non-human primates (NHPs) possess high cognitive abilities that enable them to respond effectively to complex social, ecological, and psychological challenges. These abilities need to be stimulated in ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Conn chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. I had so many career goals as a kid, rotating constantly: a ...

On the Thursday, November 27, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Dr. Jane Goodall reshaped our understanding of the natural world. Author Douglas Abrams, who co-wrote “The Book of Hope” with Jane ...