“Large brains and dexterous hands are considered pivotal in human evolution, together making possible technology, culture and ...

Learn more about the length of the thumb and the mass of the brain, which have been tied in primates for millions of years.

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were ...

Researchers have found a consistent link between thumb length and brain size in primates. Scientists at the University of ...

UCLA scientists have developed the first comprehensive road map showing how the ovarian reserve forms in primates, providing ...

A group of 35 labs has unveiled a draft of the genome of the rhesus macaque, the most widely used laboratory primate and a cousin to people.

When viewed within the broader context of our evolutionary history, we are anthropoid primates. That’s the group which contains monkeys and apes (with our species being a specialized variety of ...

The monkeys were born to surrogate macaque monkey mothers by caesarian section ten days apart, in a lab in Shanghai. They are the first primates to be cloned using tissue cells.

But to their knowledge, this is the first study that has tested gene therapy on a heart disease model in non-human primates. The team also believes that this approach may be particularly effective for ...

On August 26, 2025, a macaque stunned a tourist in Hunan, China, with its quick reflexes. The monkey caught every grape ...