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 ...

Many teeth and four partial jawbones have been identified but the animal's relationship to other great ape species has been hard to decipher. The ape reached massive proportions, exceeding that of ...

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 ...

There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...