A mouse lemur grasps onto a tree branch in Madagascar. Scientists looked to characteristics in such modern primates to form a hypothesis about how primates behaved after an asteroid wiped out ...

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 ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

Fleas, tapeworms, Giardia, pinworms: Parasites are all around us. But some animals are more susceptible than others. Take the well-studied chimpanzee, for example: it's known to host over 100 ...

Having more than 150 non-human primates at a research center fall ill with diarrhea in a stomach-churning outbreak that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A global study shows primates play, groom, and care for other species, offering new insight into the origins of human-animal bonds ...

Primates’ decision-making in economic contexts follows distinctive patterns, as initially described by Prospect Theory. Social animals, such as monkeys, live in hierarchically structured groups where ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says primates need zoo-level standards. Maisie Adam shares how her mum left her to be mobbed by baboons. Students at Grimsby Institute help care ...

Researchers have found evidence that primates colonised northern Canada 52 million years ago. Kaca Skokanova/Shutterstock This warmer period had a major impact on biodiversity. But it also has ...

These fossilized teeth belonged to a Propliopithecus chirobates, a type of early primate that lived between 29 million and 35 million years ago. Towle et al. / American Journal of Biological ...

Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...

Recent fossil evidence of Omymyids indicates how these ancient lemur-like creatures thrived during the Eocene. During the Eocene Epoch, between 56 and 34 million years ago, West Texas wasn’t the ...