The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains.

A study conducted at a chimpanzee sanctuary addresses for the first time why individuals in a group tend to urinate when others do as well. A phenomenon that has only been seen in humans and ...

But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates protects them from the sun, rain, and insect bites of their native habitats in the forests and cloud forests of Peru, Columbia, Ecuador ...

For example, there are small and large leaping primates as well as small and large brachiators. The same can be said concerning quadrupedalists, whether arboreal or terrestrial. These observations ...

the aye-aye—or Daubentonia madagascariensis—is the world’s largest nocturnal primate. While its comically large ears, piercing eyes and thick bushy tail paint a picture of bewilderment ...

In addition to having adaptations for enhanced depth perception and visual acuity, primates also have large visual regions of the brain (Allman, 1999; Kaas, 2005, 2008). Macaque monkeys ...

The primate: Kong is on the marquee, and the big man delivers (this time with a giant mechanical contraption on his hand — all the better to punch with, my dears). But there are other primates ...

Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with an even larger head. Human brain and body size is certainly ...

Primates are fantastically diverse ... A new way forward While large, fully timed trees with molecular sequence data for all species are rare, we have found that the materials to build them ...

The rigid big toe that eventually evolved gives efficient ... bone joints from living and fossil human relatives, including primates such as apes and monkeys, and then compared them to modern ...

"Our results indicate that the large primates only lived in the forest and obtained their food from this habitat," study author Hervé Bocherens of the University of Tübingen in Germany explained ...