Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to ...

Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet. Body size is a complicated variable across primate locomotor studies (Napier, 1968; Fleagle & Mittermeier ...

It all happens during hibernation, said lead author Marina Blanco of Duke. When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

Adaptive radiations and stasis -- Phylogenetic trees across the order Primates Phylogenetic trees also allow for comparing and contrasting the tempo and mode of evolution among different groups of ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...