Even these, however, are only the closest of our relatives within the Order Primates – a group that includes organisms as diverse as ring-tailed lemurs, tarsiers, and monkeys from both the Old ...

Koko, likely the world’s most famous gorilla, has died. The Gorilla Foundation, the California-based non-profit the 46-year-old primate called home, announced the news on Thursday. According to ...

(The fossilized teeth that the discovery is based on are believed to be the oldest primate teeth ever discovered.) He is survived by his wife, six children, and five grandchildren. Lisa Winter became ...

When 66-year-old "Gibby," the oldest gibbon in the world, died at the International Primate Protection League (IPPL) in Summerville, it wasn't like losing a pet. To the dedicated staff that ...

Modern tarsiers are tree-dwelling primates that live on Southeast Asian islands. The tarsier lineage split off from the anthropoids, the lineage that gave rise to monkeys, apes, and humans, just ...

during the Miocene the ancestors of Old World monkeys and apes experienced both radiations and extinctions that have been linked to climate change (Harrison 2010). In the early Miocene, primates ...

The oldest primate laboratory in the world located in the enchanting former Soviet republic of Abkhazia was virtually destroyed during its struggle for independence from Georgia But the lab ...