Despite being one of the most cooperative species on the planet, humans routinely fail to manage shared resources sustainably ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure positive feelings — and it’s a challenge.

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

(A young chimpanzee swings from a tree branch outdoors. Credit: Abeselom Zerit / Shutterstock.) Young chimpanzees differ from human children in a key way—the hairier creatures seem to take physical ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – They might be running out of champagne at the Sedgwick County Zoo as their baby parade continues into 2026, with orangutan mom Tao giving birth to baby Riang on Jan. 4. “Her ...

This is the touching moment 30-year-old chimpanzee Mahale met her newborn daughter just 14 hours after a planned C-section at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. The baby girl, named Kyansa after ...

A biological anthropologist explains why humans can't wiggle their toes in the same way they can wiggle their fingers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to disprove the quantum mechanical principle of complementarity put forth by ...