A new study challenges the long-held idea that early primates began in warm tropical forests. Fossil and climate evidence ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin -- A molecular classification for the living orders of placental mammals and the phylogenetic placement of primates / MS Springer, WJ ...

Last year, National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson was in Corral Bluffs on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, searching for minuscule fossils. His tool of choice? A unique filtering machine called a ...

TIME investigates the cult movie that explores a civilization in which humans are ruled by apes Based on a French novel, La Planète des Singes, by Pierre Boulle, the original Apes film debuted in 1968 ...

Most us know that calling someone an ape is racist, but few of us understand why. The Hornet magazine, 1871 Most us know that calling someone an ape is racist, but few of us understand why apes are ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...