Chimpanzees are the only great apes, apart from humans, that have adapted to living on savannas as well as in forests.

Driving into this Mississippi River town on a Saturday afternoon last October, it was impossible to ignore the masses of motorcycles along Main Street. Block after block along the downtown drag, there ...

The savannas of Africa may have become the cradle of human evolution millions of years earlier than thought, researchers suggest. These rolling grasslands would have nurtured our ancestors through ...

Humans have a long history of inventing names for elephants. There is Disney’s Dumbo, of course, and Jumbo (a 19th-­century circus attraction) and the famed painting elephant Ruby from the Phoenix Zoo ...