Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically ... For example, based on the primate fossil record, scientists know that living primates evolved ...

Find out more about these fascinating mammals in Primates. The first episode is on Sunday 26 ... animal has the longest migratory journey on Earth? Here are five animals that prefer to 'chill ...

In the first topic room, entitled Scientific Underpinnings ... areas of study within the field. Paleontology and Primate Evolution explores the prehistory of our closest relatives - the primates ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical ... including our primate ancestors. "At first glance, the darker forest understory caused by dinosaur ...