Small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, with enormous eyes and an appetite for meat, tarsiers are an anomaly of nature. They are also our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington ...

Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you're a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes that are roughly the same size as your brain, and you look a little like Gizmo from the movie ...

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 ...

Researchers teamed up with a student-based tech lab to develop an interactive virtual reality tool that gives users entry into the vision of another species–a tiny nocturnal primate with huge eyes ...

Nocturnal creatures that weigh in at a maximum of about 120 grams (or 4.3 ounces) when fully grown, tarsiers can nevertheless easily leap as far as three meters (about 10 feet) or more in a single ...

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Meet the Dinagat tarsier, the newest Philippine tarsier species. The University of the Philippines announced this following genetic tests by a multi-country team of scientists. "The tarsier found on ...

Move over, Bohol. A new tarsier sanctuary that promises less stress for the endangered primates is rising in Mindanao. The Endangered Species International (ESI), a San Francisco-based conservation ...

Tarsiers -- tiny, carnivorous primates -- are our distant cousins, according to scientists who sequenced and analyzed the tarsier genome. Their findings place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch that ...