One of the biggest unanswered questions in human evolution is when our ancestors first stood upright and began walking on two ...

Long before humans appeared, an enormous prehistoric ape dominated its environment with a size and strength that still ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would assume ...

A 6-million-year-old fossil ape has shed new light on the evolution of human movement. For a study published in the journal Innovation, a team of scientists employed a novel method to study the skulls ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

A new scientific study is uncovering unprecedented details about the lives and genetics of extinct human relatives. An international team of researchers has determined the biological sex of an ...

A new study of a 7–8-million-year-old extinct fossil ape from China called Lufengpithecus offers new insights into the evolution of human bipedalism. The study, published in The Innovation, was ...

If great apes are known for anything, it’s being great in size. A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus was likely a hundred pounds or so ...

In a clay pit in southern Germany, a new species of prehistoric great ape was discovered in the same location as another groundbreaking species. Fabian Irsara via Unsplash In the shadow of the ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...