Science news articles about 'ape species'

... made soon, it could become the first great ape species to go extinct," Wich et ... illegal encroachment and logging, and poaching of threatened species. Also cited as an example of faulty land-use planning ...

... common ancestor, but these are highly variable in copy number between and within human and great ape species." Scientists have had difficulty determining why humans and chimps differ so much at a ...

... in China than in any other country. A research team assembled by anthropologists of Zurich University now conclude that an other ape species has just become extinct in China's Yunnan province...

With a "surprisingly human" face, a newfound Spanish fossil ape species suggests the last common ancestor of humans and apes was European, not African, a new study says.

Study first to show AIDS-like health effects of the virus in wild population of a nonhuman great ape species