Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

Situations included tufted gray langurs ( Semnopithecus priam) petting squirrels in Sri Lanka, snub-nosed monkeys ( ...

Brains rot within days. The bony case that held them can last 33 million years, which is why primate brain evolution has been ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

The fact that monkeys can keep "pets" or even raise other species could hint at the evolutionary origins of empathy.

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

For the study, the researchers worked with two adult male macaques that had previously been trained to tap in time with a metronome. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 With a ...