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.

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.

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 ...

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.

A chimpanzee seized from a troubled animal park along the Oregon Coast now has a new home in Washington. Cle Elum’s Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest has revealed it rescued West Coast Game Park ...