By David Brown More than 100 known species of lemurs live in Madagascar. These primates with large eyes, a pointed snout, and ...

Textbooks say human birth is uniquely hard because of our big heads. A new primate comparison found squirrel monkeys, ...

Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like ...

Remember the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic? Without having a solid handle on how the virus spread, we were left to quarantine our mail, wipe down any packages with disinfectant, and wash our ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many households wiped down groceries with disinfectant before putting them away.

Fleas, tapeworms, Giardia, pinworms: Parasites are all around us. But some animals are more susceptible than others. Take the well-studied chimpanzee, for example: it's known to host over 100 ...

Researchers have found evidence that primates colonised northern Canada 52 million years ago. Kaca Skokanova/Shutterstock This warmer period had a major impact on biodiversity. But it also has ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Fossil evidence from the Tornillo Basin in West Texas and the Uinta Basin in Utah reveals two new species of omomyids — a family of small-bodied early primates from the Eocene epoch.

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 ...