The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

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

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped on Nov. 6. With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the ...

It's well known that primates are used for various types of research at universities across the country, and usually when their job is done, that also means the end of that animal's life. But an ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

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 ...

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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 ...

As the coronavirus pandemic rages across the globe, much of the focus centers on the growing human death toll, which has climbed above one million. But experts caution that a handful of our closest ...

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