A jaw bone discovered in Egypt is changing the way scientists think about the origins of the ape family tree. The specimen, ...

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

An Eastern Chimpanzee gazes up at the forest canopy (Stefanie Heinicke) CC BY 4.0 (CN) — All African apes are endangered due to threats that range from resource extraction to human population growth, ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

Humanity's closest cousins are in trouble. The great African apes, which includes gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are renowned for their intelligence and fascinate both scientists and laypeople ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller populations.

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African apes are already being exposed to climate change impacts, and will experience extreme events such as wildfires, heat waves and flooding more frequently in the next 30 years, according to a ...