A group of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate to ever live, depicted within a forest in southern China.As the lush forests gave way to open grasslands, this giant ape was driven to the ...

The largest ape on record stood nearly 10 feet tall. New research on cave fossils in southern China has shed light on the mysterious demise of Gigantopithecus.

An artist’s reconstruction of Gigantopithecus blacki, an ape that stood 10 feet tall and went extinct between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago. Credit... Garcia/Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University ...

They found that 2.3 million years ago, during the late middle Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), the giant ape enjoyed a fruit-rich diet and lived in dense canopy forest.

With fewer than 800 individuals surviving in a tiny tract of forest in the western part of Indonesia, scientists declared the Tapanuli orangutan as the rarest great ape as well as the most ...

The chimpanzee was sick. It had diarrhea and tapeworms — not unusual for a wild chimpanzee in the Budongo Forest of Uganda. What intrigued the watching research team was what the ape did about ...