Updated: 11:56 PM EDT Mar 16, 2017 Advertisement Remarkable video shows chimp cleaning deceased member's teeth in apparent ritual Updated: 11:56 PM EDT Mar 16, 2017 Abby Stubenbort National Curator ...

Prior to the teeth cleaning, the older chimp had cradled her adopted son's head in her hands as she examined his teeth.It is impossible to know the motives of the older chimp, though it is easy to ...

“Chimp teeth are actually very distinctive, because compared to human teeth, molars for instance, they have very, very low crowns,” Jablonski said. “The incisor teeth at the front of the jaw ...

They turned the chimp teeth and other animal fossils, as well as the stone tools of the human ancestors known as Homo erectus, over to Alan Deino of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, who dated ...

Chimps have been observed cleaning one another's teeth on multiple occasions. Besides serving as a hygienic practice, it is believed to be a bonding ritual as it typically occurs between those ...

By Maria Bolevich 16 March 2017 A female chimpanzee (right) uses a blade of grass to clean the teeth of a deceased group member Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Katherine A. Cronin & Daniel B. M. Haun ...

When the officers raided the 52-year-old's home they found four chimpanzee skulls, great white shark teeth, a brown bear claw, a lion's claw, a killer whale tooth and a sperm whale tooth.

The only chimpanzee fossils known to science have been unearthed in Kenya, the journal Nature reports. The three 545,000-year-old chimp teeth were dug up in the country's Tugen Hills and probably ...

London, Mar 20 (PTI) For the first time, chimpanzees have been observed using tools to clean the corpse of a deceased group member, scientists say. - Chimp filmed cleaning dead son's teeth for ...

Prior to the teeth cleaning, the older chimp had cradled her adopted son's head in her hands as she examined his teeth.It is impossible to know the motives of the older chimp, though it is easy to ...