Chimpanzees have long fascinated researchers, not only for their unique behaviors, but also for how they are similar or (not) to humans. What’s been particularly interesting to field researchers is ...

The government started breeding chimpanzees, with whom humans share 98% of our genes, for invasive biomedical research in the 1980s — now the fate of more than 250 of these primates is uncertain. In ...

According to one of the world’s leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after a chimpanzee mated with a pig. Dr. Eugene McCarthy’s stunning claims were made in an ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means ...

In early 2001, when the first draft of the human genome sequence was released by the National Institute of Health and Celera Genomics, the moment was heralded rightly as a new dawn for modern medicine ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Approximately 6 percent of human and chimp genes are unique to those species, report scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions. The new estimate, ...

No one has yet cloned a human being, although the barriers to doing so are not so much scientific or biological as primarily ethical and legal. There is every reason to think that given a serious ...

Having spent almost 40 years at Rockhampton Zoo, Cassius was well known to many visitors as a gentle and inquisitive resident. Perhaps less well known is his distinct contributions to science. He ...