Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

Your body is a living museum of evolution, carrying within it the remarkable story of our species' 6-million-year journey from tree-dwelling primates to ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

PUNCH the baby snow monkey and his stuffed orang utan have captured hearts worldwide, spawned memes and even won over the White House with their charm.

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

The slow loris hardly looks dangerous with its huge, round eyes, soft fur, and tiny hands gripping tree branches; the animal ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Broward County commissioners voted unanimously against a proposed warehouse construction project near a sanctuary for wild ...

Old places bring back memories, and sometimes, they are painful ones. When we go back to the roads we have left behind, we ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...