Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Learn how an Early Miocene ape fossil from Egypt is changing theories about ape evolution and the origins of modern apes. In a stretch of desert north of Cairo, a small fragment of jawbone is forcing ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived ...

An ape that lived 21 million years ago was used to a habitat that was both grassy and wooded. Corbin Rainbolt Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ...

A new study of a 7–8-million-year-old extinct fossil ape from China called Lufengpithecus offers new insights into the evolution of human bipedalism. The study, published in The Innovation, was ...

Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these ...