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It has long been believed that our ancestors originated exclusively in Africa - but the skull of an 8.7-million-year-old ape found in Turkey suggests they first appeared in Europe. The skull is a ...

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 study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

An extremely rare juvenile skull of an extinct ape has now been revealed from China, findings that suggest a very diverse group of apes once lived in Southeast Asia, researchers say. Apes ...

An ape skull found in a Chinese tomb might belong to a previously unknown gibbon — one that was driven to extinction within the past two millennia, researchers report on 21 June in Science 1.

King Kong is back! This time in a comic book miniseries that will explore the origins of the giant ape, Skull Island and the indigenous civilizations that came to inhabit said monster-infested ...

Conor is a staff writer for Newsweek covering Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, security and conflict. Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals ...

In Kong: Skull Island, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to theaters, this time befriending Brie Larson and annoying John Goodman. It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the ...

The skull of a baby ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ... gorillas and orang-utans on the one side (hominids), and agile, tree-swinging gibbons (hylobatids) alone on the other.