Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Scientists have revealed the most scientifically accurate reconstructions of what ancient humans would have looked like.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

OHSU’s primate research center has faced persistent opposition from animal rights groups for decades. Recently, activists have turned up the heat.

Primate skulls hang as offerings at the Malinggai Uma Tradisional Mentawai house. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez for Mongabay.

Jones-Engel and 43 others signed up to testify before lawmakers, calling on them to bar state-funded research on primates as well, including at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU.

A new Mississippi primate sanctuary aims to offer rescued primates a lifelong home and help veterans like owner April Stewart find healing.

A new study finds that primate skulls, including those from threatened species such as orangutans, gibbons and proboscis monkeys, are openly sold in these shops, despite the trade being illegal.

This concern was solidified after a second analysis where Barr and Wood compared the skulls of modern primates from the rift valley with those from other parts of the continent. The rift valley skulls ...

In a second analysis, Barr and Wood looked at how the skulls of modern primates collected in the rift valley compared with the skulls of the same primates from other parts of the continent. They found ...