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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

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 ...

Have you ever noticed the flashy, vividly colored rear ends of some monkeys? You might see monkeys with blue butts and even monkeys with red butts. Bright buttocks in primates are typically linked to ...

Some Central Florida residents got a surprise holiday guest ahead of Christmas. Monkeys have been sighted roaming around Orange City this week, with law enforcement officers stressing that the public ...

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

Rhesus macaque monkeys, like the 43 that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week, are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

Nine monkeys – including three from a critically endangered species – who died in Hong Kong's oldest zoo this week had been infected with an endemic disease, officials said on Friday. The animals in ...

The surge in imports of wild macaques to Canada followed China’s suspension of primate exports during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...