Fossil ape may be father of all apes
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A 13 million years old ape living in what is now Spain may have been the last common father of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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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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In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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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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A fossil discovered in the Gobi Desert has unlocked the most emphatic evidence to date that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs helped placental mammals -- of which Homo sapiens is a member -- become masters of the planet.
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In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists have announced they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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Researchers studying Neanderthal DNA say it should be possible to construct a complete genome of the ancient hominid despite the degradation of the DNA over time.
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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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About 2 million years ago, in  lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an  ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed  vegetarian bear except about half the size, scientists said.
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Description: Researchers report this week that they have found the remains of a group of small hominids that may be a new species of human -- one that may have existed on an island near Indonesia as late as 14,000 years ago.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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Fossil remains of the oldest and smallest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, the world&#39;s favorite ferocious dinosaur, have been discovered in China with evidence that its body was cloaked in downy &quot;protofeathers.
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Nine fossilised teeth found in Ethiopia are from a previously unknown species of great ape, Nature journal reports.
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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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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.