A 14-year-old gibbon named Lucia, 15-year-old Canter and their newborn baby gibbon, holding tightly to her mother, hung from ...

Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people will colloquially call it an ape. Apes can be split into two families: Hylobatidae ...

A baby white-handed gibbon, a type of ape native to Southeast Asia, was born at the Philadelphia Zoo earlier this month. Baby Eros is visible to guests.

The Tripura government unveiled a detailed action plan aimed at protecting the endangered Western Hoolock Gibbon — the only ...

A royal crypt from China’s past has issued a conservation alert for apes currently eking out an existence in East Asia. The partial remains of a gibbon were discovered in 2004 in an excavation ...

Twelve pits in the tomb also yielded bones from an exotic menagerie, including an Asiatic black bear, a leopard, a lynx, a crane—and an unusual-looking gibbon. The skull of this small ape is so ...

Dassow and her crew are trying to figure out what the gibbons’ "squeaks" and bleats mean. They're doing that by examining the sounds themselves and the context in which the apes make them. The ...

Gibbons are long-armed, tree-dwelling primates that are much smaller than the great apes (such as gorillas, orangutans and humans).

The remains of this now extinct Holocene gibbon represent the first documented evidence of ape extinction following the last ice-age, and according to this report by Sam Turvey et al., the gibbon ...

A long-forgotten species of ape has been found buried in a 2,300-year-old tomb. It's a type of gibbon, which scientists named Junzi imperialis. Gibbons are the smallest apes, chatty and as lanky ...

An entirely new but long-extinct ape species has been discovered in an ancient tomb in central China. The skull and jaw of the never-before-seen gibbon were found in Shaanxi province inside a ...