Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

The total number of nonhuman primates in research in the United States was 71,921 in 2021 (the most recent year for which figures are available), according to the US Department of Agriculture. This ...

"It turns out there's this signature within the brains of primates that relates directly to their vocal repertoire," said Dr Dunn. Bottom of his ranked list of primates was the proboscis monkey ...

Primates are conspicuous inhabitants of many ecological communities in the tropics. What impacts - beneficial or negative - do they have on other species, and vice versa? Given the extreme ...

At least 43 primates were on the loose Thursday in a South Carolina town where authorities "strongly advised" residents to ...

The search for more than three dozen runaway monkeys from a Yemassee primate breeding and research facility last week is down to a handful of holdouts. While placing a critical spotlight on the region ...

Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses 455 primates, every species for which genetic data are available.