Excavations in a section of a Bavarian clay pit produced 37 fossils from the ancient ape, dubbed Danuvius guggenmosi by the investigators. Bones from the most complete of four individuals ...

Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys. Both species were found in sediments that date to precisely 25.2 million years ago. “As early as [that], ...

Based on the size and shape of those fossils, the researchers suspect Buronius weighed only around 10 kilograms, making it the smallest known great ape. Modern siamangs, a type of gibbon ...

The cranium's robust features suggest an ape with a body size similar to a large male chimpanzee, weighing between 110 and 132 pounds. The fossil also reveals critical traits associated with ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old ...

This accounts for the trove of fossils Berger is finding, which in turn accounts for his upbeat mood. He leans over a red boulder near the pit bottom, tracing a white-colored protrusion with his ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

Zhalainuoer Man and other fossil copies of the ancient jungle ape, southern ancient ape, Java Man, Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Man that provide an overall understanding of human evolutionary ...

Raymond Dart announces that a prehistoric "man-like ape" has been found in a limestone quarry at Taungs, South Africa. The fossils are found along with the skull of an ancient baboon that has a ...

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species ...