#Gibbon

Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura Some 2,300 years ago, a gibbon unlike any on Earth today was buried in a chamber in Shaanxi Province, in central China, alongside lynx, leopards, and a black bear. The tomb is believed to have belonged to Lady Xia, who was the grandmother of Qin Shi

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News A royal crypt from China’s past has issued a conservation alert for apes currently eking out an existence in East Asia. The partial remains of a gibbon were discovered in 2004 in an excavation of a 2,200- to 2,300-year-old tomb in central China’s