From Spanish and Swahili to Finnish and Filipino, over 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today. Humans are unique in that we are the only species known to use language. However, new research ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite meanings. This process is based on linguistic rules ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this combination of photos provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a pant-hoot ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...

Chimpanzees Asanti and Akuna vocalising. A new study shows that wild chimpanzees use a variety of call combinations to expand messaging. Humans are the only species on earth known to use language.

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall, who died this week, had a special connection to Palm Beach County. Journalist Charles McKenzie recalls shadowing Goodall in the mid-1990s and being deeply impressed ...