Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

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

All of the former research chimpanzees that had been living on an Air Force base in New Mexico have finally arrived at a ...

The startup Colossal Biosciences says it achieved de-extinction and made three new dire wolves named Romulus, Remus, and ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

An update from the sanctuary where he now lives has revealed Michael Jackson’s beloved chimpanzee Bubbles has turned 42.

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

Southern National Park, one of our key focus areas for conservation in South Sudan, is an area the size of Wales, with huge potential for species recovery, not least for wild dogs, hyena, lion, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...