IT’S been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the communist nation’s horror history of science lives on. We unearth five of the most terrifying experiments conducted under ...

Royal Oak — All is quiet inside the Detroit Zoo's Great Apes of Harambee habitat on a recent weekday morning with animals still in their overnight enclosures as keepers trim the grass and decorate ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Zoologist Ilia Ivanov was the Soviet researcher who proverbially flew too close to the sun when it came to the fantasy of a human-ape hybrid. Around ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine and other essentials. She tosses carrots, celery and other fibrous treats ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Russian zoologist Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, and successful hybridization of other animals convinced ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine and other essentials. She tosses carrots, celery and other fibrous treats ...