What makes an ape an ape? What makes a human a human? What features originally united us? The answers lie deep in the past, some 18 million years ago, when the last common ancestor of humans and apes ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape’s face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place ...

This is how modern day apes reach fruit, and, it's been theorized, that's why apes evolved to be upright, according to U-M researchers Laura MacLatchy and John Kingston. But new research centered ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, the first ape ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick fruit in forests, but new research from the University of Michigan suggests a life in open woodlands ...