Inner ear of extinct ape species is overlooked aspect of human bipedal evolution, study finds Described by scientists as a "bony labyrinth," the inner ear provides many clues as to the origin of ...

Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species within our genus having gone extinct no ...

It may seem like humans are supreme among all of Earth's creatures, but some other species are quite capable of dominating ...

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a species from northeastern Spain first described in 2004, was one of a diverse group of now-extinct ape species that lived in Europe around 15 to 7 million years ago ...

A team of scientists from Spain and the United States reconstructed the skull of an extinct great ape species from a set of well-preserved, but damaged skeletal remains. The bones belonged to ...

The largest ever primate Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct when other Asian great apes were thriving, and its demise has long been a mystery. A massive regional study of 22 caves in southern ...

The extinct species of great ape that once stood around 10 feet tall and weighed up to 650 pounds was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes, scientists in China and Australia report ...

WASHINGTON — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons ...

India's rainforests are home to many rare and unique creatures really seen elsewhere. All these species face threat from ...

One critically endangered species is the Sumatran orangutan, of which around 7,300 remain in the wild. Most live in Aceh province at the northern tip of Sumatra, which saw armed conflict for decades ...

What we lose when animals go extinct. ... One way to think of a species, be it of ape or of ant, is as an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet Earth.

An endangered species of ape, clinging to mother Hutan as she eats some citrus fruit, was born at ZooTama at Lowry Park last Sunday night, Oct. 27. It is what the zoo called “a sign of hope for ...