Matata, one of the world's oldest bonobo apes in captivity and a Des Moines resident, died Sunday, the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative announced. Matata was believed to be in her mid- to ...

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A woman long believed to be the 'first Black Briton' was in fact white and had local ancestry from southern England, according to a new genetic study that overturns more than a decade of public ...