When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.

Chimpanzees are more likely to engage in play or groom each other if they see others performing these social behaviors first, Georgia Sandars and colleagues at Durham University, U.K. report in a ...

The mango fly lays her eggs in your damp clothing. When they touch your skin they burrow in, and gestate into worms below the surface, swelling into infected lumps. Unchecked, they’ll grow for 2-3 ...

At some point in your life you might have seen animals groom each other. This is something very common in chimpanzees, for example. Thanks to decades of work by primatologist Dr. Richard Wrangham and ...

Friendly behavior is "contagious" among chimpanzees, according to a new study. The primates are more likely to groom or play with each other if they see others do it first, say scientists. They ...

Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...