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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

However, the new skull bears little resemblance to living orangutans ... of apes surviving in southeastern Asia long after apes had become extinct in most of the rest of Eurasia," Kelley said.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV ... guests will learn interesting facts about the critically endangered apes and how to take action to help save the species. Come dressed in orange to show your zoo pride.

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 ...

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 ...

Now, five of the seven recognized species of great apes have been listed as Critically Endangered by the International ... then there's really very little hope for the rest of biodiversity.