A new analysis of an ape that lived 12.5 million years ago suggests it is a type of gorilla. If that’s true, it means gorillas evolved much earlier than thought, and also pushes back the time when ...

A new analysis of an ape that lived 12.5 million years ago suggests it is a type of gorilla. If that’s true, it means gorillas evolved much earlier than thought, and also pushes back the time when ...

Dryopithecus is one of the most mysterious extinct ape genera ever found in Europe, known from fossils discovered in France, Spain, and Austria. Long debated by researchers, it has at times been ...