Little is known about the ape as only a few fossils are known, including this jawbone A fossilised tooth left behind by the largest ape that ... our own evolution as a species over a very long ...

You can say that they are one of humans’ closest cousins and the largest ape. When talking about species, we can classify them into Eastern and Western Gorillas. The Eastern gorillas can be ...

Scientists who have been puzzling for years over the genetic "peculiarity" of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science. The apes in ...

It is believed that a remote Indonesian island was once home to an ancient human species that could still be alive today.

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are ... There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across ...

A previously unknown species of ape has been discovered buried in an ancient tomb in China. The bones of the long-extinct variety of gibbon, named Junzi imperialis by scientists, were unearthed in ...