Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

The world is full of tiny wonders. This article showcases ten of the smallest animals. These creatures can fit in your palm.

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only ...

Curiously uniform dimples on the teeth of ancient hominins may give scientists a new way to trace their origins and ...

It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music. Using fish as a reward, he taught her the ...

A new study comparing humans with other primates and rodents suggests that fur loss millions of years ago slowed the healing ...

Australian koalas have fingerprints like humans. This surprises scientists and forensic experts. Koalas use fingerprints to grip trees. This is conver ...

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species. Built by ...

Class I MHC genes present in different species. The primate evolutionary tree (Kuderna et al., 2023) is shown on the left hand side (nonprimate icons are shown in beige). The MHC region has been well ...

We have been researching the evolution of primate litter ... is quite a different experience from our tiny primate ancestors birthing in the trees 60 million years ago. But having twins can ...