P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

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 ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...