The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

Scientists in California, US have identified a new ape species, Masripithecus, that lived in northern Egypt 17 million years ago - a discovery that could reshape understanding of ape evolution. Found ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we’ve been searching for humanity’s ape ancestors in the wrong place. Researchers say a newly ...

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, ...

Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...

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 ...