Discover some interesting facts about bonobos, the peaceful and endangered great apes found only in the Congo rainforest.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The finality of death is something that even humans struggle to come to terms with, yet certain animals demonstrate a remarkably sophisticated comprehension of this eternal journey into the void.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

A study found that chimpanzees tend to take more physical risks as infants and young animals rather than as adolescents, like humans. The researchers hypothesize that the level of care humans provide ...

A zoo said a newborn chimpanzee was doing "really well" under the care of its mother. First-time mum Kora gave birth to the healthy baby at Colchester Zoo in Essex on 17 January, though keepers said ...

Rogan was entranced by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who appeared on the show in 2023 and rehearsed his familiar arguments about ...

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