“I’m tired of language,” says photographer Robin Schwartz. “With animals you don’t have to use language.” Since childhood Schwartz has documented her close connection to animals in ...

Like most primates other than modern humans, plesiadapiforms are rather small and skeletons of smaller animals erode more easily--only teeth and a few isolated bones were had been found before.

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, ...

Lemurs of Madagascar come in many shapes and sizes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lemurs are a unique group of primates ...

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.

These animals—the early relatives of primates—would give rise to a lineage that led to the first monkeys, including great apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees, and eventually, humans.

Previously, opposing scientific camps estimated that the animal that gave rise to the primates lived as recently as 55 million years ago and as long ago as 90 million years. The newly proposed ...