Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, the Pierolapithecus cranium shortly after discovery, after initial preparation, and after virtual reconstruction.

A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape’s face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place ...

A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged ...

This news release is also available in Spanish, Japanese, French and Catalan. A new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ...

Which of the great primates of 25 million years ago is our common ancestor? Is it pierolapithecus? Follow the journey of primates developing into Homo erectus and then to Homo sapiens through the ...