EXTINCTIONS PAST People may have caused a distinctive line of gibbons to go extinct sometime within the last 2,000 years, a discovery from an ancient Chinese tomb suggests.All gibbon species ...

Excavations in an ancient Chinese tomb discovered an unknown species of gibbon. Kiona N. Smith – Jun 22, 2018 1:34 pm | 21 Credit: Turvey et al. 2018 ...

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 ...

In fact, gibbons were through to channel considerable amounts of chi (energy), and often appeared in ancient Chinese poems, stories and art, Chatterjee noted. During its lifetime, J. imperialis ...

Gibbon likely belonged to Lady Xia, grandmother of China's first emperor, ... The ancient grave also contained the skeletons of leopards, lynx, bears, cranes and domestic animals.

Paleontologists identified an extinct gibbon species in an over 2,000-year-old imperial Chinese tomb, raising the question of a human-caused extinction.

Until now, the oldest remains of an ancient gibbon species consisted of a small number of teeth found in China, which date from around 7 million to 9 million years ago.

Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage. Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the ...

British researchers have identified a gibbon found in an ancient Chinese tomb as a never-before seen, now-extinct genus and species. Extinct Gibbon Found in Tomb of Ancient Chinese Emperor’s ...