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A new species of ancient ape, Nyanzapithecus alesi In a publication in Nature on August 10, 2017, Dr. Isaiah Nengo, Turkana Basin...

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked...

About 13 million years ago, when present-day Kenya was covered in forests, a baby ape died. Its tiny corpse was covered in ash from a...

A newly discovered fossil ape skull is providing clues about the common ancestor of all living apes, including our own species. The...

Fossil hunters scouring the foothills of the western Himalayas have stumbled upon parts of a jawbone of a primate, belonging to a...

A two-million-year-old skull fragment comes from the earliest baboon ever found, a new study reports. The fossil was found in Malapa, a...

A 2-million-year-old skull unearthed in South Africa belongs to the earliest baboon ever found, a new study finds. Researchers discovered...

A partial skull of a fossil monkey specimen found in South Africa represents the earliest baboon ever found. The skull, which belongs to...

A group of archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the fossilised remains of the earliest baboon ever discovered. A team...

A fossilized tooth discovered in the United Arab Emirates suggests that cheek-pouch monkeys appeared up to 3.5 million years before...

The monkey roadmap out of Africa has a new timetable and route, thanks to a tiny tooth plucked from the Arabian desert. Yale...

It has unattractive brown stains, is just a few millimetres across and part is broken off. But a fossilised tooth from Abu Dhabi has...

It is easy to imagine the excitement scientists feel when they discover the fossilised skeleton of a long-extinct animal. Teasing out the...

Ancient teeth of old-world monkeys, which are most closely related to humans, have now been unearthed, fossils 3 million years older than...

The ancestor of all modern African monkeys was alive 3 million years earlier than previously thought and coexisted with members of a...

No one knows what counts as deep contemplation for a monkey, but judging by facial expression alone, the newly identified Cercopithecus...

A new species of African monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Commonly known as Lesula, the new species of...

Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo --...

Which came first, the nail or the claw? The answer is unclear, but researchers have discovered a clue: an early primate that had a toe...

A 47-million-year-old primate may have been a fashionista of sorts, as new analysis of the fossil suggests it sported grooming claws....