Scientists were able to determine the biological sex of the Paranthropus robustus specimens by analyzing specific protein ...

Zikusoka has been on a decades-long mission to save critically endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda.  As CNN reported, ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

Countless wild animals are teetering on the edge of extinction, highlighting the urgent need for conservation efforts.

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a species from northeastern Spain first described in 2004, was one of a diverse group of now-extinct ape species that lived in Europe around 15 to 7 million years ago.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of scientists from Spain and the United States reconstructed ...

WASHINGTON — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons ...

blacki teeth to extract information on the apes' behaviours ... there is an urgent need to understand why species go extinct. "Exploring the reasons for past unresolved extinctions gives us ...

The results suggested the species went extinct sometime between 295,000 and ... and you’re going to lose the apes associated with it.” Both Nelson and Westaway note that while G.

Extinction rates today are hundreds—perhaps ... One way to think of a species, be it of ape or of ant, is as an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet Earth. A species’ genome is a sort ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists reported Wednesday.