The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

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Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

Bonobos remain the "make love, not war" primates of the animal kingdom, but new studies prove they still have an edge.

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...