Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

Some may argue safeguards and guardrails of democracy have been blatantly breached by a president with scant regard for ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

I decided to combine my need to top the leader table with my daily step count – which is how I found myself walking 10 miles ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park is that place, and honestly, Indiana is lucky to have it. Rope bridges, towering trees, and ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...