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 ...

WASHINGTON — One of the earliest primates lived in trees and relied more on smell than vision, a new study indicates. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago in ...

Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics. Their past adaptations reveal insights for conservation today.

Researchers have found a link between long thumbs and big brains, suggesting the two features evolved together ...

The note cards and images document trees and primates observed by Suzanne Ripley during 1966 - 1971. Images are organized by plant and primate, then by binomial. Each binomial includes a series of ...

Zoo officials say 24 monkeys, one bird and a zoo employee were inside at the time. There was significant damage to the roof and side of the Exotic Animal House, which houses mostly primates. Zoo ...