Caretakers gave gorillas a primate plushie at the San Antonio Zoo after being inspired by Japan’s viral juvenile monkey Punch ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

The animal is considered the world's rarest primate.

The vote does not close the Hillsboro-based center, stop ongoing research or commit the university to convert the primate research center into a sanctuary for its animals used in research. Any ...

From early on, what has set the human species apart from all others is the ability to direct ever-increasing power toward our ...

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

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 ...