For decades it had remained a mystery why females of this primate species, though smaller than males, tend to claim high ...

The Maryland Zoo welcomed the newest member of its primate family with the Zoo’s first birth of its endangered lemur species.

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Apes showed up millions of years later — Old World monkeys and apes shared a common ancestor around 25 million years ago. Scientists don't know exactly how many primate species are alive today, but ...

In 2019, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon: the Mato Grosso titi monkey. But ...

The monkey is one of the most endangered primate species in the world, classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Due to habitat destruction and ...

“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 Species Survival Plan Program is designed to ... Guests can see the lemurs on Naples Zoo’s Primate Expedition Cruise. Naples Zoo is planning a gender reveal the week of April 7-11.

Research study explores how genetic changes shaped the variety seen across primates — from brain development and body size to diet, vision, movement and survival in extreme environments.

The genomes of the two species don't quite align, particularly in certain regions. African apes, our next closest kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million years ago ...

Long victimized by poaching and deforestation, the primate species is in the midst of a surprising rebound that is sparking new hopes of recovery Photographs by Neil Ever Osborne; Text by Mark ...