and royals often acquired gibbons as high-status pets. Ancient Chinese art includes many depictions of gibbons, too. Turvey’s group compared a 3-D digital reconstruction of the gibbon’s skull ...

Thanks to the graceful way they swing through the trees, gibbons were considered noble in ancient Chinese culture. So it’s culturally significant to find a gibbon, presumably a pet, buried with ...

"Having gibbons as pets appears to have been common among Chinese royals during ancient times," explains one of the study's authors, Alejandra Ortiz of the Zoological Society of London and New ...

And humans, the scientists say, are the likely agents of these gibbons' extinction. Archaeologists excavated the burial site, in the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an, now part of mode ...

The bones of the long-extinct variety of gibbon were unearthed in a “grave menagerie” from a 2200-year-old tomb in the ancient capital city of Chang’an. During this period of China’s ...

Inside a desk drawer at a Chinese museum, a British paleontologist came across the face and jaw bones of a long-dead gibbon in 2009. Five years earlier, scientists had discovered the bones inside ...

While searching for primate fossils in northern India, paleontologist Christopher Gilbert noticed something small and shiny poking out of the dirt. It turned out to be a roughly 13-million-year ...

As the gibbons took off, they stretched their flexible trunks and swung their arms forward, just like Ancient Greek long-jumpers swinging their halteres. This action shifts the gibbon’s centre ...