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Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics. Their past adaptations reveal insights for conservation today. Many people picture our earliest primate ancestors moving through dense ...

Right away, Johannes Roberts’ Primate wears its influencse on its sleeve. Introducing the film at its Fantastic Fest world premiere, Roberts himself highlighted the work of Stephen King and John ...

Sixty-six million years ago, North America saw long, dark winters. Fossils now suggest tiny primates were already there, coping with ice and snow. A new analysis turns the usual tropical origin story ...

Fossil spore and pollen data reveal our early ancestors evolved in cold, dry environments, with some even colonizing Arctic regions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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When did the first multicellular creatures appear? How did flowering plants evolve? Did T. Rex have feathers? Paleontology doesn’t lack for interesting questions. But there’s one topic that can’t help ...

Textbooks often portray primates as originating, evolving, and dispersing exclusively within warm tropical forests. This tends to come from fossil evidence distributed across tropical latitudes.

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 ...

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 ...