Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility. Chimpanzees act as engineers when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials with more flexibility, a new ...

A chimpanzee has died just three weeks after being moved to a new zoo. Tombe, a 28-year-old male, was transported from Colchester Zoo to Belfast Zoo in March as part of a conservation programme.

AN IRISH zoo has confirmed the death of an endangered chimpanzee from a "probable heart attack" just three weeks after arrival at the Cave Hill site. Tombe, who had previously been welcomed to ...

The city said it would provide stewards for its statue of the folk song figure — and repair its bust, which has been damaged by excessive touching. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London In song ...

Since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania use tools to fish termites out of their mounds, further research has found that ...

Stewards are to be stationed next to a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin to discourage people from touching it. Dublin City Council is running a pilot scheme for a week in May after complaints of ...

Stewards have been brought in to protect a famous statue of Molly Malone in Dublin after complaints people were groping the sculpture’s breasts. Dublin’s City Council has taken the action and ...

Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee Bubbles has just turned 42 years old and is still going strong. The chimp was purchased from a research facility in Texas by the King of Pop in the 80s after his ...

In early 2025, a viral video showed a giant statue of Jesus Christ being constructed outside the White House. Many posts stated the video was 200 feet tall and was erected by U.S. President Donald ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...