We might fancy ourselves the smartest apes to ever live, but we are certainly not the largest. That honorific goes to the Gigantopithecus blacki, a creature that likely stood nearly 10-feet-tall and ...

Human activity has increased the rate of extinction by several orders of magnitude ... Africa’s rarest great ape is hard to track in its dense forest habitat. But now scientists get help ...

Mongabay contributor Orji Sunday found that prices for ape parts have recently skyrocketed, pushing some of the rarest great apes closer to extinction. The illegal trade targets some of the region ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet ...

Understanding the genomes of non-human apes is crucial, because it gives geneticists insights into human evolution and the genetic factors that differentiate us from other apes, said Kateryna Makova, ...