Hearing that a new primate species has been named is exciting news for scientists because primates across the world are in ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the last 500 million years, but this one particularly stands out. It wiped out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twins are uncommon in human history. Tesla Monson Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced learning and problem-solving abilities ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...