An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

Learn how an Early Miocene ape fossil from Egypt is changing theories about ape evolution and the origins of modern apes.

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape’s face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place ...

When he was a child growing up in Cuba, Victor Manuel Fleites would always be found running away from his family home to the nearby forest. “Being in nature is a kind of healing,” the 33-year-old ...

The last common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos wasn’t especially prone to violence, according to a study attempting to reconstruct the evolution of warlike behaviour among apes. Hostility ...

The diet of early anthropoids—the ancestors of apes and monkeys—has long been debated. Did these early primates display behaviors and diets similar to modern species, or did they have much humbler ...