When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Some Central Florida residents got a surprise holiday guest ahead of Christmas. Monkeys have been sighted roaming around Orange City this week, with law enforcement officers stressing that the public ...

The Popa langur has been "hiding in plain sight," scientists said. Scientists have discovered a new species of monkeys in central Myanmar with the help of a 100-year-old tissue sample. The primate, ...

Nine monkeys – including three from a critically endangered species – who died in Hong Kong's oldest zoo this week had been infected with an endemic disease, officials said on Friday. The animals in ...