The Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed a new primate baby, the first of its kind at the zoo in nearly 15 years. The zoo announced that one of its Bornean orangutans, 43-year-old Kalim, had given birth to a ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

A baboon escaped from a zoo in Cuba, resulting in a search and rescue operation involving special forces personnel and ...

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When my first child was 18 months old, I decided it was time for a redo. It’s not that I wanted to replace my son, but I did want a different kind of birth experience. His delivery had ended with ...

After gaining new territory through conflict, a chimpanzee group saw higher birth rates and better infant survival due to ...

Researchers are investigating a sudden spike in pregnancies in one black-and-white ruffed lemur population that might signal ...

Kissing is more than just “mouth-to-mouth” touching, and the study doesn’t really shed much light on why humans kiss the way they do, said Adriano Reis e Lameira, an evolutionary psychologist and ...

A new paper by University of Rhode Island post-doctoral researchers Emily Sperou and Renato Borras-Chavez published in the ...