Not all great apes were swingers
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The fossil of an ancient species of ape, discovered at a construction site in western Spain, has revealed that great apes went through more evolutionary stages than previously thought.
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A new fossil found in Spain may be the closest yet to the common ancestor of all great apes, perhaps including humans, researchers say.
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all. Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground &#151; a hypothesis that contradicts science museums the world over.
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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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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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Scientists find that male chimpanzees will embark on crop raiding for fruit to attract a mate.
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An ape that lived 13 million years ago in what is now Spain may have been the last common ancestor of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans, Spanish researchers say.
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Chimpanzees scampering on a treadmill have provided support for the notion that ancient human ancestors began walking on two legs because it used less energy than quadrupedal knuckle-walking, scientists said.
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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.
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MONKEYS use tools to dig up roots, crack seeds and dig insects from holes in trees, scientists have found, contradicting the traditional idea that humans are nature&#39;s only tool-makers.
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Liberating chimpanzees with soldiers at her side, performing surgeries in the wild, and demonizing ape-meat traders, Sheri Speede is helping change the way a nation looks at apes.
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Spanish anthropologists, intrigued by a single fossil tooth found near a Catalonian village, dug up more of the animal&#39;s stony skeleton and announced they have discovered what may be the last common ancestor of all the world&#39;s living great apes
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Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
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Photographer and conservationist Karl Ammann discusses why he takes often shocking photos of African apes and other rare animals killed for meat. With photo galleries.
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WASHINGTON: Based on recent fossil evidences, American scientists have claimed that a chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs in Kenya&#39;s Tugen Hills over six million years ago, nearly three million years earlier than currently believed.
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Alfred Kinsey&#39;s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male seems less likely to launch a movie than most books with sex in the title, but note the fine print.
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Laughter may have originated in an ancestor common to humans and modern apes, a study suggests.