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BUTCHERED RHINO SUGGESTS HUMANS WERE IN THE PHILIPPINES 700,000 YEARS AGO
The discovery of a butchered rhino has led scientists to conclude early humans were in the Philippines as far back as 700,000 years ago... READ MORE›
GORILLAS ARE FAR MORE NUMEROUS THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT, SURVEY REVEALS
The scientists covered the entire range of the western lowland gorilla, which accounts for 99 percent of all living gorillas, now thought to number around 360,000 animals... READ MORE›
RESEARCHERS RECONSTRUCT FACE OF CRO-MAGNON MAN
To mark 150 years since the discovery of the bones, a team of researchers, including anthropologist Philippe Charlier, re-examined the remains... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S ART SCENE BEGAN WITH NEANDERTHALS, NOT HOMO SAPIENS
Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia before disappearing about 40,000 years ago, around the time Homo sapiens moved into Europe from Africa... READ MORE›
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SMUGGLED BEATEN AND DRUGGED ILLICIT TRADE IMPERILS APES
Daniel Stiles, a self-styled ape trafficking detective in Kenya, had been scouring Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp for weeks, looking for pictures of gorillas, chimps or orangutans... READ MORE›
HOMO NALEDI NEW SPECIES IN HUMAN LINEAGE IS FOUND IN SOUTH AFRICAN CAVE
This was the scientists concluded a large dark chamber for the dead of a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage Homo naledi... READ MORE›
AFRICAN FOSSILS PUT NEW SPIN ON HUMAN ORIGINS STORY
Theory holds that modern humans can trace a line back to a creature known as Homo erectus which lived more than a million years ago... READ MORE›
'TINDER FOR ORANGUTANS': DUTCH ZOO TO LET FEMALE CHOOSE MATE ON A TABLET
The scientists' main problem has been building a touchscreen tough enough to withstand Samboja's attentions, Van Berlo said... READ MORE›
7.2-MILLION-YEAR-OLD PRE-HUMAN FOSSILS CHALLENGE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest known relatives to humans, sharing 99 per cent of our DNA... READ MORE›
AN ORANGUTAN STOLE MY CAMERA AND TOOK CLOSE-UP SELFIES IN PICTURES
One of the challenges of wildlife photography is trying to come up with ways to take images that haven't been shot before... READ MORE›
ARGENTINE COURT GRANTS RIGHTS TO APE
Lawyers had appealed to free Sandra from the Buenos Aires zoo by arguing that although not human, she should be given legal rights... READ MORE›
MEET THE ORANGUTAN WHO NOW HAS THE SAME RIGHTS TO FREEDOM AS A HUMAN
Please read our Orangutans have been granted the status of non-human persons with legal rights in a landmark court ruling in Argentina... READ MORE›
AFRICAN CONSERVATION GROUP WITH UNUSUAL MISSION ENFORCEMENT
It is headed by a French conservationist, Charlotte Houpline, and together they pursued Mr. Doumbouya, with Mr. Drori posing as a buyer... READ MORE›
THE DARK, VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF THE BABY CHIMP MARKET
'In 10 years, in 20 years, we won't have any more chimpanzees.'... READ MORE›
SKULLS OFFER NEW EVIDENCE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION IN CHINA
Li said that Xuchang 1 has features of early modern humans and was very likely a direct ancestor of modern northern Chinese... READ MORE›
OLDEST HUMAN FOSSIL OUTSIDE AFRICA DISCOVERED
The new finding is also consistent with genetic studies, which have previously suggested the possibility that modern humans dispersed out of Africa around 220,000 years ago... READ MORE›
ORLANDO VICTIMS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
Franky Jimmy Dejesus didn't have children but his nephews and nieces were his everything, his close friend Sara Lopez told CNN... READ MORE›
SANDRA THE ORANGUTAN GRANTED LIMITED HUMAN RIGHTS
09 Nov 2013 If there is no appeal, she will be transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil where she can enjoy greater space freedom... READ MORE›
ZOOS KILLING OF GORILLA HOLDING A BOY PROMPTS OUTRAGE
But soon supporters of animal rights were organizing a vigil outside the zoo in remembrance of the gorilla, named Harambe, a male weighing more than 420 pounds... READ MORE›
CHIMPANZEES HOLD SECRET TO ULTIMATE COMFY BED, SAYS EXPERT
Primatologist creates 'humankind evolution bed', which apes key features of a treetop lair to provide a good night's sleep... READ MORE›
CHIMPANZEES TO GET LEGAL RIGHTS: COURT TO DECIDE
Person is not a synonym for human being, the brief explains, but designates an entity with the capacity for legal rights... READ MORE›
CELEBRITY APE SELFIES HARMING EFFORTS TO CURB WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING, UN BODY WARNS
Instagram snaps of celebs such as Paris Hilton and James Rodriguez posing with orangutans and chimpanzees is endangering the survival of the great apes... READ MORE›
FIRST HUMAN? JAWBONE FOSSIL IN ETHIOPIA SHEDS LIGHT ON HUMAN ORIGINS
The Ledi jaw helps narrow the evolutionary gap between Australopithecus and early Homo, said William Kimbel, director of Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins... READ MORE›
'THE APE WHO WENT TO COLLEGE' AND COULD COMMUNICATE WITH SIGN LANGUAGE DIES AT 39
Chantek will be deeply missed by his family here at Zoo Atlanta... READ MORE›
JURASSIC WORLD AND TED 2: AN EVOLUTIONARY LEAP FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS?
Like the smartest monster movies, Jurassic World turns the equation on its head the real monsters are the owners of the island dino-resort... READ MORE›
STEALING ANIMALS TO SELL AS PETS
The live trade in apes particularly is growing, said Doug Cress of the Great Apes Survival Partnership... READ MORE›
LESSONS FROM LATE FRENCH THINKER RENE GIRARD
Girard took a second giant step in the formulation of the mimetic theory with the publication of Violence and the Sacred in 1972... READ MORE›
INDIAN STONE TOOLS COULD PUSH BACK DATE HUMANS LEFT AFRICA
New findings in Tamil Nadu suggest modern humans may have left Africa much earlier than prior evidence suggests... READ MORE›
STUDY FINDS GREAT APES KNOW WHEN PEOPLE ARE WRONG AND ARE WILLING TO HELP THEM
A person would place an object on one of two boxes, while a great ape looked on... READ MORE›
STUDY SAYS APES HAVE ABILITY TO THINK LIKE HUMANS IN AN IMPORTANT WAY
Then, after the man leaves, King Kong moves the rock or moves out of the bale... READ MORE›
9.7 MILLION-YEAR-OLD HUMAN TEETH FOSSIL COULD 'REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY'
The discovery of Lucy in 1974 had changed the timeline of human evolution, formed till that time... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS SAY THEY'VE FOUND THE WORLD'S OLDEST HATCHET
Now, the Australian archaeologists who scooped up this long-lost fragment say it is recasting the history of handled axes... READ MORE›
BONES IN SOUTH AFRICAN CAVE REVEAL NEW HUMAN SPECIES
Maybe it was some human relative other than naledi, he said... READ MORE›
WORLD'S SADDEST, LONELIEST CHIMP MAY FINALLY GET SOME FRIENDS
Photo Barcroft Photo Barcroft Photo Barcroft Photo Barcroft Ponso with local villager Germain Jamal and primate expert Estelle Raballand... READ MORE›