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 ...

WASHINGTON — One of the earliest primates lived in trees and relied more on smell than vision, a new study indicates. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago in ...

The tarsier, a tiny primate, is actually one of nature's strangest contradictions. While this agile predator can catch bats ...

Researchers have found a link between long thumbs and big brains, suggesting the two features evolved together ...

P rimates can get pretty big. Just look at gorillas – absolute units. But what about the other side of the spectrum? Well, ...

Zoo officials say 24 monkeys, one bird and a zoo employee were inside at the time. There was significant damage to the roof and side of the Exotic Animal House, which houses mostly primates. Zoo ...

Purchasing a pet monkey or ape in Missouri is easy. Animal rights advocates say it can be unsafe for both pet and owner.