At Web Summit, ‘Bored Apes’ emerge from swamp but remain murky
Nicole Muniz stressed the real world utility of the apes, including the Bored & Hungry restaurant chain.…
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Early gibbon fossil found in southwest China: Discovery fills evolutionary history gap of apes
A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of apes.
The work, reported in the Journal of Human…
Ape ‘vocabularies’ shaped by social mingling — like in humans: Social mingling shapes…
Social mingling shapes and transforms the 'vocabularies' of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the University of Warwick.
In a paper published by Nature Ecology and…
The Brutal Reason Some Primates Are Born a Weird Color
The first thing you might notice about the Delacour’s langur is its color. It’s got a jet black torso, limbs, and head, with a shaggy white butt sandwiched in the middle. (These…
How Bored Apes are shaking up the NFT space
A collection of 10,000 digital images of apes has amassed sales worth millions of dollars in 2021. Sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Bored Ape NFTs are actually part of a…
Great apes’ consonant and vowel-like sounds travel over distance without losing meaning
Scientists have shown that orangutan call signals believed to be closest to the precursors to human language, travel through forest over long distances without losing their meaning. This…
Investors in Evolved Apes NFT Project Lose Nearly $3 Million in Scam
A collection of 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called the Evolved Apes has reportedly been completely wiped off from the internet. The anonymous developer of Evolved Apes, known as Evil…
African great apes to suffer massive range loss in next 30 years
A new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa's great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos -- due to the impacts of climate…
How humans develop larger brains than other apes
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study, led by researchers at the…
Analysis of famous fossil helps unlock when humans and apes diverged
A long-awaited, high-tech analysis of the upper body of famed fossil "Little Foot" opens a window to a pivotal period when human ancestors diverged from apes, new USC research shows.
Little…