[joseph20]

They found an ape apparently :)

Is there a difference between monkeys and apes?

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Interesting that, according to the link you posted, only gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons are considered to be apes. From the link:

Hominids are distinguished from apes mainly by mode of locomotion. While apes predominantly use all four limbs to move along the ground, hominids have developed upright bipedal walking -- that is, they walk erect, using only their hind limbs.

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There is also this definition provided by answers.com:

pon·gid (pŏn'jĭd)
n.
An anthropoid ape of the family Pongidae, which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan.

[mewzilla]

Here's a link on the subject from the Smithsonian...

The Human Origins Progam Resource Guide to Paleoanthropology

On the left side of the screen is a menu. Click on Primates, found under Primate Origins.

From the link:

The earliest monkeys and apes evolved from ancestral haplorhine (meaning "dry nosed") primates, of which the most primitive living representative is the tarsier. Tarsiers were previously grouped with prosimians, but many scientists now recognize that tarsiers, monkeys, and apes share some distinctive traits, and group the three together. Monkeys, apes, and humans -- who share many traits not found in other primates -- together make up the suborder Anthropoidea. Anthropoid primates are divided into New World (South America, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands) and Old World (Africa and Eurasia) groups. The platyrrhine (broad-nosed) monkeys represent the first, and the second is the catarrhine (downward-nosed) monkeys and apes. Humans belong to this second group.