London, June 2 (ANI): Scientists have found a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid in Spain, which suggests that millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe. According to a report in New Scientist, the fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moya-Sola of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues,... 

Washington, May 13 (ANI): A new research, which involved a trial and error test, has suggested that gorillas maybe the smartest apes on the planet. According to a report in National Geographic News, the research was done at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, US. Four years ago, scientists there attached a touch-screen computer terminal to the side of the enclosure of a female gorilla named Rollie. As... 

London, May 9 (ANI): Female gorillas deliberately clap their hands to attract the attention of male silverbacks and infants over long distances, which helps them keep their family together, according to a study. This is the second time that such behaviour has been recorded in wild western lowland gorillas in the forests of central Africa. “What struck me most was how it was conducted in such...