Chimpanzees may be more like human thinkers than we ever imagined. A new study published in Science shows that chimpanzees ...

Sometimes, we even find a way to spin new information in ways that will support that belief rather than change our minds.

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

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

The research, titled "Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs," was carried out by a team including UC Berkeley ...

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

Just like us, these apes invest most of their time in a few close friends while keeping looser ties with the rest.

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 ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

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 ...