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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Fifty-nine days ago, a monkey in Shanghai gave birth to a clone. The infant was the first primate to be cloned using tissue cells, the technique that produced Dolly the sheep. A second monkey, ...