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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 Institute, and De Anza Coll...

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

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 nearby volcano, helping...

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

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

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 cave in South Africa ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 bone with features of ...

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