A new study challenges the long-held idea that early primates began in warm tropical forests. Fossil and climate evidence ...

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 ...

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The diet of early anthropoids—the ancestors of apes and monkeys—has long been debated. Did these early primates display behaviors and diets similar to modern species, or did they have much humbler ...

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been grappling for over a month with the relocation of 162 ...

YEMASEE, S.C. -- More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered, ABC News reported. As of Sunday evening, 25 of the 43 furry runaways, that ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque ...

Dozens of young, female primates have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. Police say nearby residents shouldn’t monkey around: the primates are skittish and human interaction could ...

A group of 43 female monkeys absconded from a Lowcountry breeding facility with a history of security challenges and violations. The monkeys escaped around 1 p.m. Nov. 6 from Alpha Genesis Primate ...