Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the dinosaurs.

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 ...

Isaac shared this clip of a monkey who can host a masterclass on kindness. ''I always dreamed of going to the Amazon rainforest and being able to help the monkeys,'' he told WooGlobe. ''I finally ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - One of the earliest primates lived in what is now Wyoming. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago, researchers report in today's online edition of ...

Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus. An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were ...

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 ...

George Barnett, 45, a church leader and avid hunter, is the second civilian to shoot one of the escaped research monkeys in ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...