They specifically chose the remains of a Lufengpithecus, an ape from China that has been extinct for 7 to 8 million years. "The semicircular canals, located in the skull between our brain and the ...

Officials at the Zoo​ on Friday confirmed that their 43-year-old endangered Western lowland gorilla named "Oscar Jonesy" died ...

Human activity has increased the rate of extinction by several orders of magnitude ... Africa’s rarest great ape is hard to track in its dense forest habitat. But now scientists get help ...

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is mourning Oscar Jonesy, its beloved 43-year-old lowland gorilla and leader of the zoo’s gorilla ...

The world's most threatened ape, the Tapanuli orangutan, is in greater danger of becoming extinct than previously thought due to deforestation, study finds. The rare primate species was only ...

What will we say when our children or grandchildren ask why we let our forest cousins go extinct? Dr Ben Garrod These iconic, sentient, beautiful ape beings are one of our closest living relatives.

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet ...

Animal rights advocates criticized the San Francisco Zoo on Friday after officials disclosed the death of its only male gorilla after a medical procedure.