Little is being done to stop this new ... and the European Union met to make decisions about trade in endangered species, great apes weren’t even included on the agenda.

Pierolapithecus lived at an important moment, “just before the Earth’s climate changed and lots of these apes went extinct,” said ... “The face was a little smushed in different directions ...

Foley and Mirazón Lahr refer to the inferred evolutionary tree of extinct apes as “ghost lineages ... and time involved, that so little divergence occurred.” The other hypothesis is the ...

The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it ... of southern Asia until a little more than 200,000 years ago. Exactly why the great ape died off after flourishing for ...

NEW YORK — The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because ... of southern Asia until a little more than 200,000 years ago. Exactly why the great ape died off after flourishing ...

Porcupines ate bones for their quill-building calcium, but teeth were simply too hard for them to crunch up, so they inadvertently created little ... this iconic extinct great ape," he said.

An endangered species of ape, a siamang, was born at ZooTampa at ... ZooTampa at LowryPark ] The little siamang, who joins sister Kazuki (age 3), is clinging to its mother tightly and has been ...

Reference genomes can also help in efforts to protect endangered ape species. By understanding ... faster and with greater accuracy, requiring little manual intervention. The team used similar ...

The new-born is a Western chimpanzee - which is critically endangered according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Experts say that fewer than 20,000 of the apes are ...