We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may ...

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One ...

Scientists long wrote off the aye-aye as a solitary oddity, a nocturnal Madagascan primate with rodent teeth and a taste for ...

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

As a scientist, I view every animal behavior as a crucial data point, revealing an animal’s well-being through the collective story they tell. After 25 years in the wildlife world, this skill is ...

Fleas, tapeworms, Giardia, pinworms: Parasites are all around us. But some animals are more susceptible than others. Take the well-studied chimpanzee, for example: it's known to host over 100 ...

Primarily Primates, a thriving animal sanctuary in Texas, has decided on a super fun way to help people deal with social distancing and feel like they are a part of the animal rescue community. They ...

Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...

The Arctic today is a hostile place for most primates. But a series of fossils found since the 1970s suggest that wasn’t always the case. Dozens of fossilized teeth and jaw bones unearthed in northern ...