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There were 426 chimpanzees in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park last year, according to the first-ever census of the endangered species there - a count that experts hope will help ...

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The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, perhaps to strengthen the jaw during chewing or speech. After all, chimpanzees ...

There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of Lassie in film and on television. Bart the Bear ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

In Burundi, large-scale tea production is hampering efforts to protect endangered species, such as chimpanzees. A tea plantation stretches as far as the eye can see on the edge of Kibira National Park ...

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THE White House has deleted a meme shared on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Edited images of the former president and first lady appearing to dance ...