Known for their enormous eyes and extraordinary leaping skills, tarsiers are among the smallest primates on Earth and one of the most fascinating members of the animal kingdom. As detailed in the ...

In the "sky islands" of the Soutpansberg Mountains of South Africa, two closely related species of primate jostle for space. One is the thick-tailed greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus), also ...

The Chattanooga Zoo recently welcomed two newborn pied tamarins, a critically endangered species of small primates native to the Brazilian rainforest. The newborns are the second set of twins born to ...

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies ...

New research has discovered that lemurs, the small primates native to Madagascar, are capable of exaggerating their size thanks to the unique structure of their larynx. Published in the journal ...

Primates - the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans - first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

Banner image: A southern lesser galago (Galago moholi) clings to a tree at night in the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa. (Credit: Téo Novel-Jandet) In the “sky islands” of the Soutpansberg ...