Ozzy Osbourne has a new approach to fundraising. He is selling five pieces of art that he painted with the help of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The species Gigantopithecus blacki, which once lived in southern China, represents the largest great ape known to scientists — standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 650 pounds. But its size ...

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 ...