That's what your extended family member would have resembled roughly halfway back to the dinosaurs, temporally speaking. We're getting close to your ultimate primate grandparents. But first ...

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belong to a family of great apes that includes chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and their fossil precursors. Even these, however, are only the closest of our relatives within the Order Primates ...

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 ...

Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, researchers in Japan successfully used a nonviral system to introduce a ...

Despite their name, these rare primates have far more in common with their monkey relatives than any feline. The golden lion tamarin forms social family groups. Males help to raise their offspring ...

The paper, by X. Ni at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Cranial endocast of a stem platyrrhine primate and the ancestral brain conditions in anthropoids." ...