Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and ...

Historic climate change influenced northeast India primates’ evolution, distribution, and decline, stressing conservation urgency.

A recent study elaborates a connection between thumbs and brains in primates and is explained in the journal Communications Biology. After an investigation of 94 primate species, experts explained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bonobos are known to make at least 38 distinct calls Flickr / Creative Commons Compared to humans, most primates produce a limited range of vocalizations: At one end of the spectrum, there’s the ...

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 ...

Ian Towle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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

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 ...

Primarily Primates has not had power since Monday. Twelve primates at a large animal sanctuary in Texas have died after suffering a power outage amid the historically cold weather that has slammed the ...