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THIS is the secret African island inhabited by super aggressive "monster'" chimps all freed from a US testing laboratory, writes the Sun.

The apes -who are infected with contagious diseases- were abandoned on the Liberian river island after being released by their captors.

Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago may fundamentally alter the understanding of human origins, casting doubt on the view that the evolutionary lineage that led to people arose in Africa.

If you think your own face has changed through the years, look at this mind-numbing 90-second time lapse video that shows millions of years worth of evolution. Watch paleoartist John Gurche’s vision of his own direct ancestry in under 2 minutes. Learn how he draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors.

An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognized the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, local media has reported.