To establish a timeline for when the ape went extinct, Westaway and her colleagues studied hundreds of its teeth and four jawbone fragments found in caves across Guangxi province in southern China.

An ape that is new to science has been discovered buried in an ancient tomb in China. The gibbon has already become extinct, suggesting humans wiped out primate populations long before the modern age.

What will we say when our children or grandchildren ask why we let our forest cousins go extinct? Dr Ben Garrod These iconic, sentient, beautiful ape beings are one of our closest living relatives.

Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close to extinction. Orangutans only live in Southeast Asia, in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A new study suggests an ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction by environmental ...

A clay pit in Germany has uncovered the remains of a second ape species, which is now considered to be the smallest to have ever lived.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favourite fruits out of reach during dry ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, ...

It is the first new great ape to be described for almost a century. Publishing their work in the journal Current Biology, the team - including researchers from the University of Zurich ...

Are humans inherently selfish? In The Selfish Ape, Nicholas Money combines classical philosophy with the life sciences to suggest that we are less Homo deus (god-like) and more Homo narcissus (selfish ...