The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long ...

Marilyn Monroe famously sang that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, but a new study suggests that a love of crystals is a ...

Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

Haven is a place on Earth. Chimp Haven, that is — the retirement home for New Mexico chimpanzees used for biomedical experiments at Holloman Air Force Base’s Alamogordo Primate Facility. Earlier this ...