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 ...

Primates - the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans - first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around 600-700 million years ago. These soft-bodied life forms predated the ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Most primates today live in the tropics, and most primate fossils have been unearthed there too. But when the scientists behind the new study used fossil spore and pollen data from early primate ...