WASHINGTON – A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.

A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine. A husband-and ...

A new study has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, may be crucial to ...

This news release is also available in Spanish, Japanese, French and Catalan. A new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ...

An integrative anatomy expert says the shape of an 11.8-million-year-old specimen's pelvis indicates that it lived near the beginning of the great ape evolution, after the lesser apes had started to ...

A "missing link" that is likely to have been the last common ancestor of all living great apes, including humans, is unveiled today by palaeontologists. An exceptionally complete skeleton of the ...

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There are lots of news stories today (as well as PZ Myers’ take) about the fabulous new discovery in Spain of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a 13-million year old fossil close to the common ancestor of ...

The fossil of an ancient species of ape, thought to be an ancestor of all living great apes, including humans, has been discovered at a construction site in western Spain. It reveals that the great ...

A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged ...