In April 2019, 49 years after my first primate sighting, I completed one of my primate quests. I became the first person in history to see all 80 genera of primates in the wild.

Primates took to the road as the earth warmed New research suggests that the first primates became a global species in less … John Timmer – Jul 31, 2006 3:47 pm | 0 ...

Artistic reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees. The origin of the first primates — the group that includes humans, apes and monkeys — is thought to lie in the ...

The first primates may have scampered among the trees while dinosaurs still ruled the planet, according to the results of a new study. Researchers writing today in the journal Nature conclude that ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on Earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos.

First Primates. Our most distant primate ancestors, which appeared soon after the dinosaurs died out, were the size of mice. ... As inhabitants of Earth, we humans are relative newbies.

The first primates were emerging and over time, they would evolve and diverge into numerous body types and behaviors. Some became monkeys; some, lemurs; and others, creatures called tarsiers.

On July 15, 2008, Mary Silcox answered selected viewer questions about our earliest primate ancestors, what it's like to do fieldwork, and other matters paleontological.