When it comes to closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, chimpanzees and bonobos top the list. They share a common ancestor and over 98% of our DNA. Both species belong to the genus Pan.

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees "are capable of" producing sounds that mimic words that they hear from people. It builds on unrelated, recent research that chimpanzees can gesture ...

A viral video shows a 28-year-old chimpanzee named Vanilla stepping outside and seeing the sky for the first time after she was rescued and rehoused at a Florida facility.

They're watching Steward brandish a Plexiglas stick at an oblong polycarbonate box sitting behind a wide mesh fence - a rudimentary candy vending machine. As the subordinates look on, he liberates M&M ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.

A chimpanzee at San Francisco Zoo and Gardens who was said to be one of the oldest in the United States died this week at the age of 55.

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...

A 28-year-old chimpanzee, who was caged her entire life, saw the open sky for the first time in her life in a heartwarming video captured at her new home in Florida.. Vanilla, the rescued chimp ...

A chimpanzee, George, has been relocated to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary NW in Washington, following a rescue at the West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon, Oregon.

Most chimpanzee populations do not use a complex set of tools, in a specific sequence, to extract food. But some regularly do. And these groups are likely to be genetically related.

The author provides an overview of efforts to improve chimpanzee ... in shaping 99.4% nonsynonymous DNA identity between humans and chimpanzees: Enlarging genus Homo. Proc. Natl. Acad ...

A chimpanzee, George, has been relocated to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary NW in Washington, following a rescue at the West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon, Oregon.