Gibbons are famed for their graceful agility high in the forest canopy. Swinging effortlessly from branch to branch, their bodies spilling through the trees, the small apes seem to defy the basic ...

A new species of great ape may not have been alone in Europe’s ancient woodlands. Only two primates, humans and barbary macaques, today call the continent home, but this hasn’t always been the case.In ...

This small ape, called Yuanmoupithecus xiaoyuan, shines a new light on the evolution of hylobatids, which are poorly understood mainly due to the rarity of their fossils. Nicole Barber, a PhD student ...

Great apes new species uncovered in Hammerschmiede fossil site. The fossils of Danuvius guggenmosi were discovered at the Hammerschmiede fossil site in Bavaria, southern Germany, dating back to ...

What they found deepened the understanding of these endangered small apes. "Their adaptability to environmental changes is better than we expected," Fan said. Their research compared the daily ...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place "many generations" after the last movie--we're talking hundreds of years here--and so it gets to establish a new franchise status quo for how things ...

Life Apes have the same willingness to share food as small children. In lab experiments, chimpanzees and bonobos share peanuts and grapes with other apes who shared food first, doing so at about ...

(CNN) – An otter was caught on camera going ape over a gibbon at a Chicago-area zoo. Is it the beginning of a beautiful interspecies relationship? The otters were being introduced to their new ...