Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and ...

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped on Nov. 6. With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the ...

Four little marmosets glowing green could be heralds of a new species for modeling human diseases. Japanese scientists engineered the marmosets to make green fluorescent protein in all the cells of ...

It's well known that primates are used for various types of research at universities across the country, and usually when their job is done, that also means the end of that animal's life. But an ...

Historic climate change influenced northeast India primates’ evolution, distribution, and decline, stressing conservation urgency.

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard ...

According to the US Department of Agriculture, in 2023 (the most recent year for which figures are available), the number of nonhuman primates (hereafter, “primates”) used in research, testing, and ...

A recent study elaborates a connection between thumbs and brains in primates and is explained in the journal Communications Biology. After an investigation of 94 primate species, experts explained ...

Ian Towle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

As cyclones and droughts are expected to grow in frequency and intensity while global temperatures rise, humankind’s closest relatives will become increasingly vulnerable to extinction, scientists say ...

This week news services were all a-twitter about a 47-million-year-old fossil primate from the famous Messel deposits of Germany. Named Darwinius masillae and described in the journal PLoS One, the ...