These peculiar primates sit at an evolutionary crossroads between prosimians (primitive primates like lemurs and lorises) and anthropoids (monkeys, apes, and humans). This unique position has made ...

A new Mississippi primate sanctuary aims to offer rescued primates a lifelong home and help veterans like owner April Stewart find healing.

Anthropoid’ s unique subject material makes it more valuable since it’s hard to pinpoint another contemporary movie that chronicles Gabčík and Kubiš’ heroics in such an impressive fashion.

Previous studies report that geometric measures of incisor size and curvature in extant anthropoid primates correspond to dietary differences. However, other methodologies of assessing incisor shape ...

Forty-three primates remain on the loose Friday after escaping from a research center in a South Carolina town.

The Best Planet of the Apes movies ranked, from the 1968 original to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Will primates become extinct? 7 experts explain the looming threat Primates are finding it difficult to adapt to habitat loss and climate change, leading to population declines and prompting ...

New fossil studies tell us our ancient ancestors enjoyed a diet of soft, sweet fruits. This would have influenced where they lived and spread to – and even the evolution of colour vision.

It is in reply to both these extremes that I have especially prepared for Nature additional information regarding the fauna and habitat of this new Primate, and additional figures to show the ...

Research funded by NIH that uses nonhuman primates is critical to the nation’s ability to respond adequately to public health emergencies and carry out high-impact biomedical research, but gaps in the ...

The Order Primates includes lemurs, lorises, tarsiers and anthropoids (monkeys, apes and humans). Hominoids belong to the superfamily Hominoidae and are distinguished from the rest of the primates by ...

The declining population of non-human primates, like monkeys, apes, tarsiers or prosimians, mainly due to deforestation and habitat loss, has long been a concern for researchers. At least 68% of ...