In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at ...

A company recently claimed it revived an extinct species, launching a debate across scientific and conservation communities.

The chimpanzee approaches the camera and appears to recognize that it is different from her environment, video footage shows. She picks up a long stick, uses it to probe the camera and then appears to ...

Dozens of hippopotamuses have died from anthrax poisoning at Africa’s oldest national park. Anthrax, a severe illness most ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

By Shreya Dasgupta African gray parrots, one of the world’s most trafficked birds, can no longer be captured or traded across ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

More than 90 million years ago, a creature with a long neck and two claw-baring fingers roamed the Earth, grabbing plants and sinking its sharp, small leaf-shaped teeth into the greenery hanging ...

It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa ... Ph.D., who works as a palaeozoologist, studying animals like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.