The guy who played the Gilligan's Island gorilla also played creatures on Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Perry Mason, and more.

Monkeys and apes are essential to the health of the forest. They are seed dispersal agents and gardeners. Some fear that without them we may not have any have forests in the future. In the 17th ...

Mayor also breaks down the evolution of ape and monkeys, such as the common ancestor of humans and apes, the hominin, in "2001: A Space Odyssey"; the Gigantopithecus in "The Jungle Book" (2016 ...

NBC’s Hallie Jackson runs through the Highs and Lows on Sunday TODAY including an alligator getting in the way of a pizza delivery in Florida, a gorilla smoking a cigarette like he’s done it before ...

The famous ape reportedly knew thousands of words, loved Clint Eastwood movies, and was a big fan of video games.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

These accounts aren’t easily dismissed as sources conflating apes with monkeys. Hunters and traffickers clearly distinguish them from other primates, and gorillas from chimpanzees, citing ...

Here’s how each team pulled it off. Let’s just get this out of the way: Monkeys are not apes, and apes are not monkeys. They’re different animals, though both count as primates. Though ...