Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

When, where, and why did they evolve? Species in the fossil record that exhibit all these features will be easy to recognize as primates. However, at some point primates must have evolved from ...

52 million years ago it was a hot and swampy forest where, according to a new study, primitive relatives of primates thrived. "Imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half ...

All primates are mammals with flexible five-fingered ... Instead, their evolutionary path sticks closer to primitive traits and has spent less effort on developing cognitive ability.

Thirty million years ago, a fearsome carnivore roamed the lush forests of what is now Egypt. A recent discovery in the Fayoum Desert reveals the secrets of this little-known predator, shedding ...