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Trump removes protection for swaths of Utah parks
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Trump traveled to Salt Lake City to announce that he was cutting 85 percent of the vast Bears Ears National Monument and around 45 percent of the Grand Staircas...
Gorillas can learn to clean food on their own, without social cues
Dec 04, 2017 (UPI)
Many of the gorilla's abilities are thought to be socially acquired, including food cleaning behavior. But during a series of tests, researchers found gorillas ...
Chimp females who leave home postpone parenthood
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Wild chimpanzee females in western Tanzania who leave home or are orphaned take roughly three years longer to start a family. The researchers analyzed more than...
Long-term logging study demonstrates impacts on chimpanzees and gorillas
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
David Morgan, Ph.D., of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, is used to uncharted territory, spending most of his days in a remot...
What grosses out a chimpanzee?
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
In 2015, researchers from Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute went to the Primate Center at the 'Centre International de Recherches Medicales de Franc...
Human evolution was uneven and punctuated, suggests new research
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings sug...
Chimp study reveals how brain's structure shaped our evolution
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
Findings are based on brain scans of humans and previously collected data from chimpanzees. They could help scientists understand how our brains evolved and why...
Put your head inside a brain
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
Users wearing VR goggles can put their head inside a mouse brain and visualize the 3D structure at cellular resolution. Interactive hand-held pointers allow rap...
Study shows video games could cut dementia risk in seniors
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
A new study suggests older adults who practice specific computer training exercises that test how fast they respond to visual stimuli could face a 29 percent lo...
High cognitive ability not a safeguard from conspiracies, paranormal beliefs
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
Is skepticism toward these kinds of unfounded beliefs just a matter of cognitive ability? Not according to new research by a University of Illinois at Chicago s...
Finger and toe fossils belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
It's hard to imagine that anyone would be able to recognize these flecks as fossils, much less link them to an ancient world that was very different from our ow...
Bonobos help strangers without being asked
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
Famously friendly apes from Africa's Congo Basin, bonobos will go out of their way to help strangers too, said Jingzhi Tan, a postdoctoral associate in evolutio...
Faith not linked to intuition or rational thinking, study shows
Nov 08, 2017 (UPI)
Previous studies have hypothesized that religious beliefs are intuitive and that a person's faith is diminished when they're required to use analytical thinking...
Tracking collars reveal raiding strategies used by hungry baboons
Nov 08, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists used tracking collars to reveal the raiding strategies of local baboons, publishing the results of their research this week in the journal Scientific...
Japanese scientists estimate the mutation rate from chimpanzee parents to their offspring
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
One traditional method to estimate this rate is a 'phylogenetic' approach that examines the sequence divergence between two species, and the time between diverg...
The relentless rise of migration in Europe over last 10,000 years
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers found that migration has been on the rise since the beginning of the Holocene (the unusually warm and stable climatic period we have been in for...
Study shows how memories ripple through the brain
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
"Using new technologies advanced by the BRAIN Initiative, these researchers made a fundamental discovery about how the brain creates and stores new memories," s...
Newly discovered orangutan species is most endangered great ape
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
"It's the first declaration of a new great ape species in about 100 years," Ian Singleton, co-author of the study and director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conserv...
Climbing Australia's giant red rock Uluru banned
Nov 01, 2017 (AFP)
Scrambling up the symbol of the Outback, also known as Ayers Rock, is seen by many tourists as a must-do on their visit to Australia. But they do so against the...
Remote Amazon tribe tries to straddle two worlds
Oct 27, 2017 (AFP)
"Airplane!" says one. The sight of the aircraft, just a silvery dot high above the Waiapi settlement of Manilha, mesmerizes the villagers, who are naked except ...
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