A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester , an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and ...

Learn about the different ways mammals descended from trees and what this can tell us about early primate evolution.

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

A new dataset of genetic information collected from 233 primate species, the largest and most complete of its kind, promises to yield insights into primates’ evolutionary biology and how genetics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twins are uncommon in human history. Tesla Monson Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back ...

Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of ...

This photograph shows two species from the study by Toussaint et al. – a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) – climbing on vertical supports. Researchers have shed new light on ...