Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

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 new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester, an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, is shedding fresh light on how the earliest known primate ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester , an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and ...

Learn about the different ways mammals descended from trees and what this can tell us about early primate evolution.

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...

“A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this quality and completeness offers novel insights into mixodectids, including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,” study co-author and Yale ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a ...