Scientists researching primates, called "primatologists," have learned a lot over the years about our closest evolutionary ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is coordinating with federal agencies to end federally funded animal testing and phase out research using nonhuman primates. Proponents of reform caution that ...

Heated disagreements about sexuality and gender are front and center in today's culture wars. Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues in his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs ...

Primates are the most fascinating and diverse mammals on Earth, ranging from familiar monkeys to bizarre, unusual and ...

Source: Catherine Poh Huay Tan, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Primates, humans included, are known for their complex societies and sophisticated social cognition. Navigating ...

The last of the 43 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility late last year have been recovered, according to the local police department, putting an end to a dramatic saga that ...

First published together by W.W. Norton & Company in a 1993 book, these endearing images are rarely shown. An exhibition at the Alice Austen House brings them to the public eye for the first time in ...