The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of adorable great apes that includes three chimpanzees and an orangutan. The infant was ...
Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...
Jaya celebrated his sixth birthday Friday with bagels and whipped cream, some new balls to toss around, a kitchen strainer he insisted on wearing as a hat — and a $66,000 check to preserve his species ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Zoo welcomed the newest member to its family over the weekend. Riang, an orangutan ...
A tabletop role playing game based on Planet of the Apes will let players become an intellectual chimpanzee, philosophical orangutan, a gorilla soldier, or a long lost human astronaut who returns to ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Zoo announced Thursday it will say goodbye to its three remaining chimpanzees as it temporarily shutters its chimp program. At the same time, zoo officials ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor just 4 million years ago -- a much shorter time than current estimates of 5 million to 7 million years ago, according to a ...