The department has pledged it will meet an end-of-the-year deadline early for halting spinal cord injury research that used ...

Remains of the animals were found from May through December last year, officials said, with 392 packages housing primate skulls, including macaques, baboons, mandrills and chimpanzees.

A new database offers access to over 6,000 3D scans of primate skeletons housed in the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, the National Museum of Natural History, ...

Humans aren't the only animals to pick their nose and eat the contents, a new study has shown. Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most ...

A new study published Wednesday in PLOS One describes two species of lemur-like creatures, the first primate-like animals known to have inhabited the Arctic in the Eocene Epoch.

Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy ...

OHSU primate research center faces renewed scrutiny with animal testing bill Activists want a current bill aimed at protecting dogs and cats from painful research to also include primates. To ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, is home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse ...

Bizarre aye-aye primates take nose picking to the extreme. The animals’ extra-long middle fingers probably reach all the way to the back of the throat ...