A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

A Japanese macaque named Punch has gone viral. A biologist explains how his journey from abandonment to social integration ...

Japanese macaques withstood unfavorable conditions for decades in Texas.

"Primate mothers are some of the best mothers you will find in the animal kingdom," one expert said. So what happened with ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before, and the breakthrough ...

Born Free, the wildlife charity, has warned that Punch's viral fame could do more harm than good—for him and for his species.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as previously thought. Primate species with better colour vision are not more likely to have red skin ...

Most of the 43 monkeys that escaped Thursday from Alpha Genesis are hanging out in the trees in the forest just beyond the facility’s fence line, the company’s owner said Friday morning. The escaped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhesus macaque monkeys, the type of primate that escaped a South Carolina research facility Wednesday. (Istvan Kadar ...

The vote does not close the Hillsboro-based center, stop ongoing research or commit the university to convert the primate research center into a sanctuary for its animals used in research. Any ...