Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Measurements of three Danuvius limb bones, two of which come from the same adult male, indicate that this extinct ape relied equally on its forelimbs and hind limbs. Comparisons of two Danuvius ...

Standing 10 feet tall and weighing over 1,000 pounds, Gigantopithecus was the largest ape ever known. While officially extinct (even though the reasons for its extinction remained a mystery until ...

A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus was likely a hundred pounds or so heavier, the largest primate of all time. But now ...

What will we say when our children or grandchildren ask why we let our forest cousins go extinct? Dr Ben Garrod These iconic, sentient, beautiful ape beings are one of our closest living relatives.

Human activity has increased the rate of extinction by several orders of magnitude ... Africa’s rarest great ape is hard to track in its dense forest habitat. But now scientists get help ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet ...