Chimpanzees may share more cognitive abilities with humans than was once believed. A new study finds that chimps can revise ...

Sometimes, we manage to spin new information in ways that will support our belief rather than change our minds. Just watch ...

Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of ...

The experiment suggests that the animals are “not just driven by simple, emotional responses” but “have rather complex awareness.” ...

The chimps who starred in "MVP" 25 years ago are long removed from wearing hockey gear, but the impacts of their show ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals.