WASHINGTON – A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.

A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine. A husband-and ...

This news release is also available in Spanish, Japanese, French and Catalan. A new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ...

A new study has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, may be crucial to ...

A "missing link" that is likely to have been the last common ancestor of all living great apes, including humans, is unveiled today by palaeontologists. An exceptionally complete skeleton of the ...