Republic of Congo announces two massive protected areas
...ay also recorded extremely high densities of great apes in the region's broad Marantacae forests. Even t...kou-Pikounda forest will be a stronghold for great apes and forest elephants. There is already a great deal of local community support for the creation of ...Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign
...acities for pain and suffering on a par with great apes and humans. It is also increasingly clear that dolphins have social traditions and cultures, complex interdependent relationships, and strong family ties all of which are susceptible to disruption or even dissolution in the drives. "The scientific ...Oldest juvenile skeleton discovered will help piece together human development
...o be primitive and more similar to hyoids found in apes than humans, according to Spoor, who has studied the evolution of this region in humans and other primates. The findings are expected to provide insights into the growth and development cycle of Australopithecus afarensis since the infant remains wi...Meet the earliest baby girl ever discovered
...he Dikika girl is similar to that of African great apes and different from that of humans. This bone is unknown for any extinct human ancestor species except for one Neanderthal specimen, and is presumed to have important role in human speech, giving us some clues to understand the nature and evolution of...UVA studies potential target for skin cancer treatment
...ncestor since the rise of hominoids. African great apes like chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans have SPANX, but monkeys do not. "SPANX represents a rapidly evolving gene family located on the X chromosome involved in the development of the spermatid nucleus," Herr said. "While our recent fi...Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
...or wrote in their current report. "Larger-brained apes have slower-paced life histories," they said. "Assuming selection is acting on brain size, life history is prolonged because development of larger brains require more time." Their previous work led Taylor, an anatomist who studies bones, to begin co...First evidence to show elephants, like humans, apes and dolphins, recognize themselves in mirror
...ll, elite group of species-including humans, great apes and dolphins-that have the ability to recognize th... This test produced the same results as when great apes and human children are presented with the mark test. "As a result of this study, the elephant now j...Humpback whales have brain cells also found in humans
...illion years ago, since they are observed in great apes and humans, but not in lesser apes and other primates; in cetaceans they evolved earlier, possibly as early as 30 million years ago. It...Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas
...twelve years. Accurate figures on exactly how many apes have died are not yet available. But given the lar...e conservation efforts. Ebola has not totally made apes totally extinct from these areas but it has pushed once huge populations down to smaller sizes at wh...... a sense bridge the evolutionary gap between great apes and monkeys, could shed light on when this ability developed in the primate lineage."...Researchers unearth 4,300-year-old chimpanzee technology
...s were actually inherited by both humans and great apes from a common ancestor. Dr. Julio Mercader, one ...e technology, or whether both humans and the great apes inherited it from a common forebear," says Mercader, also a Canada Research Chair in Tropical Archae...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...ty neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, is that people, apes and monkeys are highly intelligent, social creatures with far too much spare time on their hands. "Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out," he said. "...These legs were made for fighting
... aided climbing, but "evidence is poor because the apes that have the shortest legs for their body size sp...e for Australopith Aggression All modern great apes humans, chimps, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos engage in at least some aggression as males compe...New evidence of 'human' culture among primates
...ure. A strong case has already been made for great apes having a capacity for social learning, but until now there has been no evidence of material culture among the "new world" primates of Central or South America, which include Capuchins. Dr Moura carried out his research in the Serra da Capivara Nati......udy to assess the energy cost of carrying in great apes which will be very tricky indeed. Computer models of early hominins carrying will also be built to try and evaluate whether their body shape and posture - long arms and short legs - would have made them noticeably better or worse at carrying than ou...Ape gestures offer clues to the evolution of human communication
...s and vocalizations, as shown by their presence in apes and humans but not in monkeys. "A gesture that occ...ure is the open-hand begging gesture, used by both apes and humans. This gesture can be used for food, if there is food around, but it also can be used to b...Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans
... analyzed the DNA of humans and several species of apes and monkeys. Their previous work had shown that ty...expressed in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of lesser apes and Old World monkeys. In the current study, they tested the expression of type II in the PFC of two...Brain, size and gender surprises in latest fossil tying humans, apes and monkeys
...ete fossil skull of an ancient relative of humans, apes and monkeys bears striking evidence that our remot...mons said. "This means the big-brained monkeys and apes developed their large brains at a later point in time." Simons named this creature Aegyptopithecus z...Color vision drove primates to develop red skin and hair, study finds
...o develop red and orange skin and hair. Humans, apes and Old World monkeys, such as macaques and leaf monkeys, all have trichromatic vision, which allows these primates to distinguish between blue, green and red colors. Primatologists have disagreed about whether this type of color vision initially evo...Study identifies energy efficiency as reason for evolution of upright walking
...rks a critical divergence between humans and other apes and is considered a defining characteristic of human ancestors. It has been hypothesized that the reduced energy cost of walking upright would have provided evolutionary advantages by decreasing the cost of foraging. For decades now researchers ha...