Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.

Researchers have long suggested that humans take more time to heal than other mammals. But, thus far, the research hasn’t had all that much to say about whether the slow healing of skin in humans is ...

It was the first time a NASA-funded researcher had left Earth on a commercially owned rocket. Thanks to that same researcher, it was also the first time that a fossilized snail, horse and early ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

The primate: Kong is on the marquee, and the big man delivers (this time with a giant mechanical contraption on his hand — all the better to punch with, my dears).

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.

Early American Experiments - Albert I: On June 11, 1948, Albert I, a rhesus monkey, became the first primate launched into space aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. Unfortunately ...

Ham, a chimpanzee, became the first primate to survive space on January 31, 1961, during a Mercury Redstone mission. Ham’s success paved the way for Alan Shepard’s historic human space flight.