When its forest habitats shrank about 100,000 years ago, the enormous ape may not have been able to snag enough food to survive and reproduce, and went extinct as a result, said study co-author ...

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 ...

Forest clearing has already begun for the Chinese-financed hydroelectric power plant and dam in Sumatra’s Batang Toru Forest highlands. Experts say the project will push the world’s rarest ape ...

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 ...

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 ...

After covering more than 100 miles in the deep forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, NBC News cameras were able to capture one of the elusive mystery apes of Bili. NBC News May 7, 2016, 5:04 ...

No forest, no ape. Published 24 March 2001. From Ashley Leiman, The Orangutan Foundation . Discussing orang-utan rehabilitation in a scientific forum is long overdue ...

Ape part traders interviewed for this story say Lagos and Ibadan are the hubs for the ape body part trade in western Nigeria. In the east and middle belt, the cities of Enugu and Onitsha are the hubs.

The Go Ape Treetop Adventure opens June 3 at the Jefferson Memorial Forest in Fairdale, Kentucky at 11 a.m. Go Ape is an outdoor experience in which participants will get to play and exercise ...

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 ...