Domestic dog origins challenged - what about man?

"The suggestion that the domestic dog originated in East Asia has been challenged.The huge genetic diversity of dogs found in East Asia had led many scientists to conclude that domestication began there. But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in...

Scientists Find HIV's 'Missing Link' in Sick Chimps

Scientist working at Gombe Nationals Park in Tanzania think they have found the HIV 'missing link' in sick chimps.  Chimpanzees get a wasting disease similar to human HIV, called simian immunodeficiency...

Palm Oil Frenzy Threatens to Wipe out Orangutans

TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia - Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives:  It was...

Hollywood Deaths, 2008

Heston was one of the great actors of the 20th century.  Eartha Kitt was  a great actress and singer. All these will be missed. ." In Memoriam Charlton Heston, April 5, age ...

Great Apes Debate : To be or not to be made extinct by Humans

Just imagine an opposite condition , wehn Humans will be used as Guiena pig to justify the need to do reserch in the field of medical science. I think this is already happening in third world countries......not by...

Crows are brainier than your average apes

To start off with, I hate crows. They sound annoying, and they are too smart for their own good. I remember seeing some crows pick up rocks and then dropping it at someone's house over and over again. My theory is...

Spain awards apes legal rights

Spanish Parliament has approved a resolution to grant chimps, gorillas, and orangutans statutory rights previously reserved for their human cousins. Support for this action has crossed party lines and is expected...

Spain approves 'human rights' for apes

In a resolution passed earlier today, the Spanish parliament gave basic "human rights" to all of the species in the Great ape family. "Great apes should have the right to life and freedom, according to a...

Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists

I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory...

Orang-utans 'king of the grinners'

"Laughter was not developed first by humans but by our close biological cousins the apes, according to new scientific research. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have found that orang-utans have a sense...

Toothy Find In Ethiopia Changes Evolutionary Assumption :: Oblate Spheroid

"The scientific community, through unearthed fossil evidence, has always assumed that humans evolved from apes. A new fossil may push back the approximate beginning of this split by millions of years. What...

Crows are as intelligent as apes

The researchers devised some very difficult tasks for the crows. It's remarkable that these creatures found  and executed the right sequence of steps to solve the problems facing them.  This is the...

Monkey see, monkey sue: Austrian activists want chimpanzee declared a ’pers...

"In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV. But he doesn't care for coffee, and he isn't actually a person - at least...

Iowa apes to name swans

The Great Ape Trust in Iowa, which is home to eight bonobo apes, is about to get two Trumpeter Swans in a nearby pond. This on its own is not a huge deal, but the fact that the apes get to name the swans...

Capitalism Endangers Orangutan

"Orangutans Displaced, Killed by Indonesian Forest Fires Intentionally lit forest fires on the island of Borneo are killing Southeast Asia's endangered orangutans, conservationists warn. The fires are lit annually to clear land for oil palm plantations and agricultural...

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