Primates are our closest living biological relatives. So perhaps it's time to show a little hospitality and stop destroying their homes. About 60 percent of the world's monkeys, apes, tarsiers ...

That's what your extended family member would have resembled roughly halfway back to the dinosaurs, temporally speaking. We're getting close to your ultimate primate grandparents. But first ...

Studying how these distant primate relatives slow aging during hibernation may reveal new strategies for supporting healthy ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to navigate on a daily basis,” says team member Zanna Clay, also at Durham ...

“Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos–flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia– making them fairly close relatives of humans.” Mixodectes belonged to an ...

As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant primate relatives share about 96 percent of their DNA with us ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Chimpanzees, the closest relatives to human beings, are capable of brief bipedal walks, but their usual means of getting about on the ground is knuckle-walking -- standing on their hind legs but ...

But to our closest primate relatives, who have no immunity or evolved genetic resistance, "these diseases can be deadly", wrote Nuwer. Respiratory pathogens like HMPV have been "the leading chimp ...