Discover the key differences between apes and monkeys, including their physical traits, movement, intelligence, and habitats, ...

Apes, Dr. DeSilva explained ... offering critical insight into the hominid evolution from trees to land. “Climbing up and down trees is very important if you’re going to escape predators ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In contrast, bonobos are known as the most empathetic ape, heralded as the ...

Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion—from walking upright on two legs to climbing in trees and walking using all four limbs.

But really, apes and monkeys live on different branches of the evolutionary tree. So how exactly do you know which you're looking at? Tails Tell the Monkey Tale The most basic way to tell the ...

The reconstruction allows them to place Pierolapithecus on the hominid family tree and improves our understanding of how the ape moved around Spain some 12 million years ago. Pierolapithecus was ...

The last common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos wasn’t especially prone to violence, according to a study attempting to reconstruct the evolution of warlike behaviour among apes.

[Related: Our tree-climbing ancestors evolved our abilities ... “One of the persistent issues in studies of ape and human evolution is that the fossil record is fragmentary, and many specimens ...

Dozens are swinging from trees and structures in 43 U.S. zoos ... she said, noting that the ape has not yet been named. The baby is the second offspring of mom Hutan, 17, and dad Sensei, 15.