A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

THE chief findings of a report on the teeth of the fossil ‘’men-apes’ of South Africa by Prof. W. K. Gregory and Dr. Milo Hellman of the American Museum of Natural History, New York ...

Friction point: In most African mining areas, very little ape survey data is available. And the study flags a "lack of data sharing by mining projects," and other experts agree.

One-third of Africa’s population of great apes are at risk from a boom in mining-related habitat destruction in the continent, a new study has found. The impact of mining on these iconic ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists.

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

Environmental journalists across Africa can apply for a virtual workshop. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is hosting a virtual media workshop on covering great apes and One Health in Africa.

Danuvius shares enough of its known anatomy with modern African and Asian monkeys, gibbons as well as other fossil apes for scientists to question whether the German creature had any direct ...