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The fossils were discovered at Wadi Moghra in northern Egypt and provide the first definitive evidence of an ape from North Africa.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

An international team of researchers has identified a previously unknown fossil ape that lived about 17 to 18 million years ago during the Early Miocene.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Touching, embracing and kissing before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, according to scientists studying the behaviour of our closest ape relatives.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The study's findings, said the authors, show that extreme rainfall events can directly threaten the survival of great ape populations.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

The hyena, with only its jaws, will over­come the ape because it knows what it wants and how to get it.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Masripithecus shows that apes were already living in North Africa during the Early Miocene.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Before this discovery, Early Miocene fossil sites in North Africa had produced remains of monkeys but no confirmed apes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

More tolerant groups showed higher levels of reassuring touch, including what researchers described as "reassurance trains", in which multiple apes embraced one another in succession.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

On this island lived phoenixes, unicorns, black apes, and white stags.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

In the 1960s, a primitive chatbot that mindlessly aped a therapist had people pouring their hearts out to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

His misguided approach - often aped on the Accidentally Partridge social media account, which shares cringeworthy clips of public figures - is "provocative" but, Coogan hopes, "never mean-spirited."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

Eggers’ “Nosferatu” succeeds because the director’s alterations to Henrik Galeen’s original 1922 screenplay, aped from Stoker’s novel with a few tweaks, are minimal.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

It’s not the first time Meta has aped a competitor’s innovation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

Pascal, who speaks English, is "aped over Jodie Foster" and owns all her movies on videotape.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Some analysts see Greenland aping Iceland’s success, combining tourism with fishing and cheap energy to attract tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The plan is to craft something “safe and fun” that will “bring joy” to its users, especially “women and gay people,” at a time when other social media executives are aping norms of reactionary ultramasculinity.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2025

He certainly wouldn't want to give the impression he's aping their style or strategy.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

This enrages Roy, who pushes over the podium and storms offstage with the other Roy Tillmans following him, aping his every gesture and statement.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024

The deweys with their magnificent teeth ran out from Number 7 and danced a little jig around the befuddled Shadrack, then cut into a wild aping of his walk, his song and his bell-ringing.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison