When primatologist Frans de Waal died in 2024, he left a huge scientific legacy. His work was a fixture in this magazine for decades, and he wrote a small library of books, including The Age of ...

Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

In 2019, primatologists in Gabon's Loango National Park observed a mother chimpanzee named Suzee looking at a wound on her ...

John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific world ...

Cooperation can make us stronger, building alliances and increasing the availability of resources. A recent symposium hosted ...

IFLScience is no stranger to stories about animal behaviors; ranging from the cute and cuddly to the plain unusual, planet ...

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In 2003, in the deep forests of Bossou in Guinea, a chimpanzee mother did something that reshaped how we view animal minds. Jire carried the the lifeless body of her one-year-old infant Jimato for ...

The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life ...

We see amazing footage of a gorilla mother and orangutan being amazed by human babies and showing off their own!

Don’t call it a comeback. For more than a century, an organ in the female reproductive system was written off as useless. However, a recent study suggests that what researchers have called a ...

Our self-domestication may have been a pivotal moment in making us human ...