LONDON -- Researchers in China claim they have identified a new species of gibbon in the remote forests along its border with Burma - and have named it after Star Wars character Luke Skywalker.

The Force is strong with this adorable newly-discovered gibbon species. Thanks to some Star Wars-loving scientists, the new species in southwest China has been named in honor of our favorite hero from ...

The image in question is genuine and features a gibbon, a primate known as a "lesser ape." Humans are also considered primates but belong to a subset of species known as the "greater apes." Living ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — For the first time in nearly 28 years, a rare white-handed gibbon was born at Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach Saturday. The newborn ape can be seen hugging onto ...

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the black crested gibbon is now a Critically Endangered species. It’s unfortunate, considering the gibbon is one of the world’s most majestic and ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 37-year-old siamang gibbon at the San Diego Zoo recently gave birth to the zoo's first siamang baby in 12 years despite being on birth control, the zoo announced Friday. The ...

In the green tree canopies of forested areas in Myanmar, you might wake up to the sounds of skywalker gibbons singing love songs. Gibbons start their day with passionate duets. Though these love songs ...

If you’ve ever walked through a zoo and heard a long, low call that was answered by another call, you might have heard two gibbons singing to each other. Gibbons are monogamous primates, and male and ...

The zoo proudly announced the birth of Eros, a white-handed gibbon, who's part of an endangered ape species native to Southeast Asia. The Philadelphia Zoo's team says the baby boy, born just before ...

Gibbons are relatively small, slender primates that are exceptionally agile, using their extra-long arms for a spectacular arm-swinging locomotion called brachiation in which they move through the ...

Because gibbons typically live in monogamous pairs, pair bonding has become crucial to their rehabilitation and odds for ...

In the northern forests of Vietnam, a tiny primate baby marks a landmark for a critically endangered species. Quentin Dang via Unsplash In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” ...