Pop quiz: are you a haplorhine or a streppsirhine? Or to put it another way, are you more like a lemur or a tarsier? If you don’t know, don’t care and don’t understand such crazy talk in the first ...

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

DinoFest recently took place at the Natural History Museum of Utah. One weekend every year the museum goes all out with dinosaur-themed lectures, vendors and exhibits. Also, a big hit for my two-year ...