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

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard ...

Historic climate change influenced northeast India primates’ evolution, distribution, and decline, stressing conservation urgency.

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As cyclones and droughts are expected to grow in frequency and intensity while global temperatures rise, humankind’s closest relatives will become increasingly vulnerable to extinction, scientists say ...

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 ...

Two newly reported complete skeletons of primates show that this group that includes humans' closest relatives such as chimps and lemurs is 10 million years older than scientists previously thought, ...

As the coronavirus pandemic rages across the globe, much of the focus centers on the growing human death toll, which has climbed above one million. But experts caution that a handful of our closest ...

Primate brains may have grown larger and more complex thanks to a fruit-filled diet, a new study suggests. The researchers analyzed the brain sizes and diets of over 140 primate species spanning apes, ...

This week news services were all a-twitter about a 47-million-year-old fossil primate from the famous Messel deposits of Germany. Named Darwinius masillae and described in the journal PLoS One, the ...