Lost Apes Of The Congo
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A TIME reporter travels deep into the African jungle in search of a mysterious chimp called the lion killer
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Scientists in Spain have discovered fossils of an ape species from about 13 million years ago that they think may have been the last common ancestor of all living great apes, including humans.
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By TALES AZZONI  SAO PAULO, Brazil - The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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Artificial Intell. Computers etc. Computers etc. Electronics etc. A new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ancestor to all living ...
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The deadly Ebola virus may have killed more than 5,000 gorillas in central Africa, a study finds.
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BARCELONA - A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday.
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JAKARTA/BANGKOK (DPA): Thailand, under growing pressure to repatriate some 100 orangutans allegedly smuggled into the country from Indonesia, plans to shift the apes from a private zoo to a safe centre, probably in Chiang Mai, a minister said on Thursday.
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The latest probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain.
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A baby chimpanzee found alone, helpless, in the forest. An African rock python caged and taunted by villagers until it cracks its skull on the metal bars. A rare shoebill crane, a tall, gray-feathered beauty, discovered in the trunk of a smuggler's car.
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REGENT, Sierra Leone  - They can leap playful somersaults or maul a human to death. Meet the chimpanzee, man's closest relative.
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The Republic of Congo will set aside up to 3,800 square miles (1 million hectares) of land to help preserve elephants, chimpanzees, hippos, crocodiles, and gorillas.
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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One of man's closest relatives, the pygmy chimpanzee, may be much closer to extinction than previously thought, a conservation group said Thursday.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Chimpanzees may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300 years ago. An international research team, led by archaeologist Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, Canada, said Monday it had uncovered the hammers, dated to that time, in the West African country Ivory Coast. It would be the earliest known use of tools by chimpanzees.
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For the first time, researchers observe a chimpanzee fashion a spear from a branch then use it to kill prey. Is this an anomaly, or are chimps really that smart? By the Associated Press.