Rhesus macaque monkeys, like the 43 that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week, are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

The Brevard Zoo announced it is now home to two black-and-white Colobus monkeys. This species of primate is classified as ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...

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 ...

Dozens of primate species are teetering on the brink of oblivion in a new extinction emergency that has left scientists astonished and angry. "It's all been happening at a time when we knew better," ...