The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

You’re at a pretend tea party, but instead of sitting across from toddlers in tiaras, you’re clinking cups with Kanzi—an ape ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

Former President Barack Obama said a video President Donald Trump posted depicting Obama and his wife as apes was part of a shameless "clown show." ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

An ardent Trump supporter thought they had found the perfect “what about” to throw at California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week ...

The vice president said he doesn't think Trump needs to apologize for posting a video including a racist depiction of the Obamas.

The president of the United States posted a racist video Thursday night depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. On Friday, the White House dismissed criticism — but the president deleted the post ...

The history of a narrative by Antonio de Torquemada shows how in this process Africans became demonised and the demons ...