More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has landed a nomination at the 97th Academy Awards, which continues a long-standing Oscars ...

“The small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa,” observed Dr. Gregory, “now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant ...

The mythology of the Planet of the Apes franchise is built on time travel, but it seems unlikely that the more grounded modern-day reboot series will ever utilize that plot point. Although it’s ...

Some features of the ape-men might suggest a scientifically undiscovered species or population of modern apes. But Lio statements mostly count against this hypothesis, as does all we know about the ...

The upcoming sequel to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will tie the modern reboot franchise with the original series in one ...

1989). While strong sexual dimorphism is a primitive catarrhine feature, it is further elaborated in apparent stem hominoids and modern great apes (but secondarily reduced in humans). There are ...

Based on the size and shape of those fossils, the researchers suspect Buronius weighed only around 10 kilograms, making it the smallest known great ape. Modern siamangs, a type of gibbon ...