We human beings belong to a very exclusive group of animals. There are only four types of "great apes" in existence today, those being humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas. As the name "great ...

Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria – and she may have done so on two legs. A recently described fossil femur offers evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new scientific study is uncovering unprecedented details about the lives and genetics of extinct human relatives. An ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed in southern Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago may dramatically alter the understanding of the evolutionary origins of a ...

Long before humans appeared, an enormous prehistoric ape dominated its environment with a size and strength that still challenge modern understanding. Fossil evidence suggests this giant lived ...

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...