Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments. ... King walked in and told Kanzi she had a present. A small, ...

Scientists have fully sequenced the genomes of six living ape species, ... Sumatran orangutan 4 and bonobo 5, and small apes that are less closely related to humans than are great apes 6.