Scientists researching primates, called "primatologists," have learned a lot over the years about our closest evolutionary ...

Self-pleasure occurs all across the animal kingdom, but it’s still unclear why primates in particular evolved autosexual behavior. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 6, 2023 7:01 PM EDT Get the Popular ...

As cyclones and droughts are expected to grow in frequency and intensity while global temperatures rise, humankind’s closest relatives will become increasingly vulnerable to extinction, scientists say ...

New biogeographic evidence supports the origin of primates in the Jurassic and the evolution of the modern primate groups -- prosimians, tarsiers, and anthropoids -- by the early Cretaceous. A new ...

Primate locomotion is the study of movements and postures in arboreal and terrestrial environments. Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet. Body size ...

Progress continues in the development of reparative interventions to enhance recovery after experimental spinal cord injury (SCI). Here we discuss to what extent rodent models of SCI have limitations ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Two newly reported complete skeletons of primates show that this group that includes humans' closest relatives such as chimps and lemurs is 10 million years older than scientists previously thought, ...

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This week news services were all a-twitter about a 47-million-year-old fossil primate from the famous Messel deposits of Germany. Named Darwinius masillae and described in the journal PLoS One, the ...

Millions of years ago, the oceans presented a formidable barrier to the spread of primates – but were ultimately no match. Did rafts of vegetation help them conquer the globe? Humans evolved in Africa ...

Residents are "strongly" advised to keep doors and windows securely closed. Forty-three primates remain on the loose in a South Carolina town, two days after escaping from a research laboratory, ...