Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Leeds have assembled the largest and most comprehensive family tree of the order primates, including both living and extinct species.

This photograph shows two species from the study by Toussaint et al. – a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) – climbing on vertical supports. Researchers have shed new light on ...

The rich genetic diversity and evolutionary history of primates – the group that includes monkeys, apes, lemurs and humans ourselves - has been revealed in full for the first time in a new research ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Co-led by Guojie Zhang from Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University, Dong-Dong Wu at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Xiao-Guang Qi at Northwest University, Li Yu at Yunnan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twins are uncommon in human history. Tesla Monson Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mammals descend trees in different ways, and primates stand apart. (CREDIT: Andrew Mercer / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0) A ...