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 ...

Chimp Haven recently welcomed retired New Mexico Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) chimps. The final troop is among the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys. Both species were found in sediments that date to precisely 25.2 million years ago. “As early as [that], ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Monkey” is generally accepted to refer to two types of primates: New World and Old World monkeys. A few significant ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...