We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may ...

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One ...

Scientists long wrote off the aye-aye as a solitary oddity, a nocturnal Madagascan primate with rodent teeth and a taste for ...

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

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 ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

Fleas, tapeworms, Giardia, pinworms: Parasites are all around us. But some animals are more susceptible than others. Take the well-studied chimpanzee, for example: it's known to host over 100 ...

Zookeepers at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire are celebrating the birth of a Coppery Titi monkey and two Cotton-Top Tamarin ...

Primarily Primates, a thriving animal sanctuary in Texas, has decided on a super fun way to help people deal with social distancing and feel like they are a part of the animal rescue community. They ...

These fossilized teeth belonged to a Propliopithecus chirobates, a type of early primate that lived between 29 million and 35 million years ago. Towle et al. / American Journal of Biological ...

As cyclones and droughts are expected to grow in frequency and intensity while global temperatures rise, humankind’s closest relatives will become increasingly vulnerable to extinction, scientists say ...