A newly identified primate species from Wyoming is challenging a long-standing model of early primate evolution. The species, Tetonius varleyorum, lived about 55 million years ago and combines ...

Brains rot within days. The bony case that held them can last 33 million years, which is why primate brain evolution has been ...

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ...

An international study led by the University of Oxford documented 427 friendly cross-species interactions involving 88 primate species and 127 partner species, including dogs, pigs, birds, squirrels, ...

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The diet of early anthropoids—the ancestors of apes and monkeys—has long been debated. Did these early primates display behaviors and diets similar to modern species, or did they have much humbler ...

2024 had a lot of great movies of all stripes: Sci-fi! Action! Comedy! Animation! Thrillers! But there was one micro-genre that had a particularly noteworthy year: the primate picture. At least five ...