Killing a rival and squabbling over food turn out to be statistically distant behaviors across the primate family tree. A ...

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 ...

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

Aggressive behavior in primates can manifest itself in different ways, from ordinary conflicts within a group to deadly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...