As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant ...

The popular literature often includes misleading information about the characteristic features shared by crown primates. For example, it is not uncommon to encounter the assertion that all ...

They ranked 34 different primate species based on their vocal abilities ... Since we cannot study our extinct human ancestors, scientists all over the world still look to our closest primate ...

Nevertheless, probably all primates secrete scents that influence ... Similarly, adult male Campbell's monkeys produce different loud call types, which they combine into structurally unique ...

Q: What can living animals tell us about the behavior of extinct animals that we otherwise only know from fossils? A: When you look at the fossil record, all you have really is a pile of bones.

All the recovered primates are in good health, police said. Nearly all of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered. As of Monday evening, 39 of the 43 ...