The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists who predict the charismatic red ape will become ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A drug that targets hepatitis C in an entirely new way was highly effective at suppressing the virus in chimpanzees ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The skeleton of an early human who lived 4.4 million years ago shows that humans did not evolve from chimpanzee-like ancestors, researchers reported on Thursday. Instead, the missing link -- the common ancestor of both humans and modern apes ...
A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science. The fragile remains of the small creature, ...
A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science. The fragile remains of the small creature, ...
Titus the Gorilla King, who became the world's most famous mountain gorilla after starring in Dian Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist" and a BBC documentary, has died in Rwanda at the ripe old age of 35. The Rwandan and national parks office ...
Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday. "Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and earlier studies have shown that chimps are not immune to its suggestive influence either. ...
2 chimps evacuating from wildfire recaptured after escaping from temporary shelter at LA zoo Two chimpanzees that were evacuated from an animal sanctuary threatened by wildfire have been recaptured after they escaped from their crates while being unloaded at the Los Angeles ...
Malaria, which affects some 500 million people a year worldwide, was first transmitted to humans by chimpanzees, according to a US study. The origins of mosquito-carried malaria has long been unclear, and has lead scientists to come up with several inconclusive theories. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman from Cameroon has been found to be infected with an AIDS-like virus that came from gorillas, French researchers reported Sunday. The woman, who has no symptoms of HIV infection, is well and was likely infected by another ...
'Missing link' seen in primate form of AIDS virus killing chimps; other apes unharmed Scientists believe they have found a "missing link" in the evolution of the virus that causes AIDS. It bridges the gap between the infection that does no harm ...
Chimpanzees infected with the ape version of HIV can die of an AIDS-like disease, a finding that challenges conventional beliefs that chimps are immune to the virus, according to a study released on Wednesday. Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a pathogen circulating in ...
