Red Ruffed Lemurs love bananas. It’s something you know if you are a caretaker at the Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens like Andew Zamora, the animal caretaker. The Naples Zoo offers visitors free boat ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction. A paleoartist's depiction of ...

Elon Musk has been talking lately about the Kardashev scale. It’s named for Nikolai Kardashev, the Soviet-era astrophysicist who proposed, in 1964, that the use of energy is the essential feature of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may have discovered why one of the most threatened species in the world has bounced back from the brink of extinction.

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

BEAUFORT — A South Carolina company that has secured over $120 million in federal money to breed monkeys is now offering a new service: a retirement home for primates no longer needed in medical ...

In a unanimous vote Monday, OHSU’s board gave the green light to explore a plan to transition the Oregon National Primate Research Center to a monkey sanctuary. Last week, OHSU officials announced the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For weeks, the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU has been heated and controversial topic. Should they continue research that brings in millions of dollars ...

The Oregon National Primate Research Center in 2010. (Mike Perrault) The Oregon Health & Science University board on Monday approved a plan to negotiate with the federal government over the future of ...

To celebrate its digital release today, ComingSoon is excited to debut a Primate behind-the-scenes clip from Paramount’s chimpanzee horror movie. The video focuses on how actor Miguel Torres Umba ...