GILBERT PRIMATE EVOLUTION LAB

It has unattractive brown stains, is just a few millimetres across and part is broken off. But a fossilised tooth from Abu Dhabi has...

It is easy to imagine the excitement scientists feel when they discover the fossilised skeleton of a long-extinct animal. Teasing out the...

Ancient teeth of old-world monkeys, which are most closely related to humans, have now been unearthed, fossils 3 million years older than...

The ancestor of all modern African monkeys was alive 3 million years earlier than previously thought and coexisted with members of a...

No one knows what counts as deep contemplation for a monkey, but judging by facial expression alone, the newly identified Cercopithecus...

A new species of African monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Commonly known as Lesula, the new species of...

Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo --...

Which came first, the nail or the claw? The answer is unclear, but researchers have discovered a clue: an early primate that had a toe...

A 47-million-year-old primate may have been a fashionista of sorts, as new analysis of the fossil suggests it sported grooming claws....

Hurum and team advocate the minority hypothesis that in fact a third group, adapids, eventually gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans....

In the latest attempt to answer the anthropological question of whether DNA or anatomy provides the better clue to understanding...