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 ...

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

New York, January 9, 2024 — A research paper published in Royal Society’s Biology Letters on January 10 has revealed that picrodontids —an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several ...

WASHINGTON - One of the earliest primates lived in what is now Wyoming. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago, researchers report in today's online edition of ...

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

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 ...

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, ...