KHQ.COM - Apparently humans aren't the only ones who know how to multi-task. Ambam, a Western Lowland Gorilla, has recently become famous for walking upright on his hind legs, MSNBC reports. Phil ...

Around 3 p.m. on July 23 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, a monkey was spotted walking upright on high-voltage power lines. Like a human, it stood on two legs and held onto the wires with its “hands,” ...

Too often, in popular media, primitive humans have been depicted as unintelligent and brutish. We use them to highlight our own superiority, or to sell car insurance. Then we got The Croods (now ...

This is an important question because many anthropologists see bipedalism – which means walking on two legs – as one of the defining characteristics of “hominins,” or modern humans, and their ...

Because the savanna consisted of a mix of woodlands and grasslands, the apes gradually began walking upright, in order to better traverse the open spaces. All of that having been said, not everyone ...

Humans walking on two legs consume only a quarter of the energy that chimpanzees use while “knuckle-walking” on all fours, according to a new study. The finding, detailed in the July 17 issue of the ...