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

Turns out our love of sweet food goes back—way back—to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found. The work sheds light on the dietary habits of early anthropoids, which ...

Primate social organization is more flexible than previously assumed. According to a new study, the first primates probably lived in pairs, while only around 15 percent of individuals were solitary.

Primates - the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans - first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

Modern tarsiers are tree-dwelling primates that live on Southeast Asian islands. The tarsier lineage split off from the anthropoids, the lineage that gave rise to monkeys, apes, and humans, just ...

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Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus. An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were ...

Primate social organization is more flexible than previously assumed. According to a new study led by University of Zurich, the first primates probably lived in pairs, while only around 15% of ...

Primates – and this includes humans – are thought of as highly social animals. Many species of monkeys and apes live in groups. Lemurs and other Strepsirrhines, often colloquially referred to as ...