But apes and monkeys diverged from their last common ancestor even longer ago: between 23 million and 34 million years ago, according to a 2013 paper published in the journal Nature.

Apes and monkeys: They're like us, but they're not us. That's the fascination. And it's a great starting point for all kinds of storytelling, be it comic or cautionary.

The world's apes and monkeys are in serious trouble. About 60% of Earth’s non-human primate species, including apes, monkeys, gorillas, gibbons and lemurs, are threatened with extinction and ...

If apes and monkeys were extinct by the time we humans got an inkling about our evolutionary connection to them, we’d reconstruct skeletons and develop theories about ape life based on the ...

26 million years ago: Monkey has birthday dinner at overpriced Japanese place and makes everyone split the bill, even though ape is a vegan and just ordered a bowl of rice. Ape ends up spending ...

Ape elbows and shoulders evolved differently than monkeys, allowing us to throw with precision A new study compared chimpanzee and monkey movements, revealing surprising traits of human evolution ...

Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged.

A slope-faced, big-toothed creature from the distant past has inspired scientists to recalibrate the ancient evolutionary split between apes and Old World monkeys. Discoverers of a partial apelike ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer Male capuchin monkeys on ...

These Monkeys Call One Another by Name Marmosets are the first nonhuman primates known to use name-like labels for individuals, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes Advertisement Origins ...