By Spoorthy Raman With oversized and inquisitive eyes, an infant-like expressive face, and a palette of thick, furry coats ranging from beige to black, gibbons tick all the right boxes to be called ...

A previously unknown species of ape has been discovered buried in an ancient tomb in China. The bones of the long-extinct variety of gibbon, named Junzi imperialis by scientists, were unearthed in ...

A virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a “key animal” in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than ...

The gibbon finds its food by scouring the trees. Finally, gibbons are not monkeys. Instead, they’re classified as apes. It is estimated that less than 1,500 black crested gibbons are left in the ...

Though they might look a bit like monkeys, northern white-cheeked gibbons are officially classified as apes. One easy way to tell the difference is that, like chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans ...

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 ...

Given the large size and arboreal niche of the extant apes (gibbons are probably secondarily dwarfed: Tyler, 1993), large body size may also be a stem hominoid characteristic. In crown hominoids ...

Based on the size and shape of those fossils, the researchers suspect Buronius weighed only around 10 kilograms, making it the smallest known great ape. Modern siamangs, a type of gibbon ...

FAN PENGFEI/FOR CHINA DAILY In the lush tropical and mountain forests of Southeast Asia reside various species of gibbons — small apes highly sensitive to environmental changes. Serving as ...