Observing gorillas interacting with each other shows that they have more dynamic social bonds with their neighbors than researchers once thought.

The gut microbiomes of apes living in captivity resemble those of some people more than they resemble apes living in the wild.

Endangered apes also face the threat of COVID-19. And they'll need our help to stay safe and avoid extinction, experts warn.

Young male chimpanzees who have their mothers around are more likely to survive later in life, research finds. The same isn't true for chimp daughters.

Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary relationship between a 2 million year old extinct primate and today's living orangutan.

Our cooked, meaty diets and lack of fur appear to have made human saliva quite different from that of close relatives like gorillas.

"The brain followed its own evolutionary path of neural innovation while freely floating in the braincase."

A tooth from a 12.5 million-year-old site in Kenya once belonged to the smallest species of ape ever known—weighing in at just under 8 pounds.