Emory University’s National Primate Research Center — formerly Yerkes — has, for decades, sold the public and federal funders on the illusion that its experiments on primates drive scientific progress ...
Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...
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 ...
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists. These primates may have sought to reach higher in foraging, see farther over tall ...