Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhesus macaque monkeys, the type of primate that escaped a South Carolina research facility Wednesday. (Istvan Kadar ...

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 ...

High in the mountains of Japan lives a remarkable primate that thrives in conditions too cold for almost any other monkey.

Facially expressive monkeys are more socially successful and lead better connected social groups, according to research by Nottingham Trent University which shows the benefits of facial communication ...

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...

A group of 43 female monkeys absconded from a Lowcountry breeding facility with a history of security challenges and violations. The monkeys escaped around 1 p.m. Nov. 6 from Alpha Genesis Primate ...

Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...

Optic neuropathies are a group of disorders characterized by damage or dysfunction of the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the retina to the brain. Common causes include glaucoma, ...

(CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque ...