A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

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

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

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

Primate evolution claim challenged An analysis of 37 million year old primate fossils is fueling a debate over the existence of an evolutionary link between lemur-like and monkey-like primates -- a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back in ...

Background to primate phylogeny. Recent advances in methods of phylogenetic inference / George Gaylord Simpson ; Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia / Malcolm C. McKenna ; Phylogeny, ...

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

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 ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...