Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated its Red List of Threatened Species Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s digital vertical at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Within the forests of prehistoric Germany, there lived a species of primate that paleontologists believe was the smallest of the great apes. It was roughly the size of a small dog! In comparison ...

Of the world's 504 primate species, roughly 75 percent already have declining populations, according to a study published this week in the journal Science Advances. CARD ID: 151590 "This truly is ...

Lemurs are the most endangered mammal group in the world. Ring-tailed lemurs are endangered, says the International Union for ...

Many primate populations and species are critically endangered. However, do trends in deforestation, climate change, bushmeat hunting, and disease provide us only despair, or is there a foundation ...

But in many primate species, only the members of one sex leave their natal group (e.g., bonobos, chimpanzees). The ‘philopatric' members of the other sex spend their entire lives in their natal ...

Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green ...

The tiger arrived to the zoo in 2008 after being rescued from a wildlife trafficking operation, the zoo said. It lived to age 17.

“The virus can latch onto the human receptor just fine,” Goldberg said. “The virus seems to be able to pass between primate species very easily without any problems with replication and it doesn’t ...

The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in ...