The reconstruction allows them to place Pierolapithecus on the hominid family tree and improves our understanding of how the ape moved around Spain some 12 million years ago.

Humans Ape family tree suggests human ancestors weren’t particularly violent. An evolutionary analysis of behavioural traits across primate species may shed light on the question of whether ...

A team of scientists from Spain and the United States reconstructed the skull of an extinct great ape species from a set of well-preserved, but damaged skeletal remains. The bones belonged to ...

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.

Foley and Mirazón Lahr refer to the inferred evolutionary tree of extinct apes as “ghost lineages.” “Ghost lineages are species or groups of species that have not been observed directly ...

Despite their importance, complete evolutionary trees are surprisingly rare. Although the NCBI taxonomy contains DNA sequence data for nearly 500,000 species, only about 150,000 species are ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that gorillas spend much more time in the trees than previously thought.

The effort outlines a new framework for future studies regarding ape evolutionary origins." Study: The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda ...

Scientists Found the Tiniest Great Ape Ever—and It Could Change Human Evolution At just 22 pounds, this potential new species is a pipsqueak compared to its cousins. By Darren Orf Published: Jun ...

An ape in Uganda 21 million years ago. Based on the lifestyle of apes alive today, scientists have hypothesized that the very first ones evolved in dense forests, where they successfully fed on ...