For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

2024 had a lot of great movies of all stripes: Sci-fi! Action! Comedy! Animation! Thrillers! But there was one micro-genre that had a particularly noteworthy year: the primate picture. At least five ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Tiny fossil teeth discovered in Colorado reveal new clues about Purgatorius, the earliest known primate relative, reshaping ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Recent research has unveiled that giant ocean whirlpools, also termed mesoscale eddies, play a crucial role in transporting ...

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a ...