ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 18 (UPI) -- A University of Michigan professor says the discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil may be from a primate species related to humans, apes and monkeys.
HILLSBORO, Ore., April 7 (UPI) -- The Oregon National Primate Research Center said nine Japanese macaque monkeys that escaped during routine cleaning have been returned to their enclosure.
DENVER, July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have completed what's believed the most comprehensive assessment of gene copy number variations across human and non-human primate species.
BUFFALO, N.Y., July 13 (UPI) -- Primate tourism in Asia, Africa and Central America may be putting primate infants and their habitat at risk, researchers said.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the absence of a specific marker in the blood and tissues of certain monkeys might be part of the key to understanding AIDS resistance.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A ruling by a Wisconsin judge clears the way for animal-rights activists to purchase property next door to the UW-Madison's primate labs.
PARMA, Italy, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Italian scientists have provided the first quantitative description of neonatal imitation in a non-human primate.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, April 7 (UPI) -- An international coalition of advocacy groups warns many species of Africa's and Asia's primates, humans' closest relatives, could disappear.
DURHAM, N.C., May 12 (UPI) -- A North Carolina psychologist has found lemurs are far more intelligent that previously thought.
NYUNGWE NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda, March 10 (UPI) -- One of the world's centers of primate diversity is now a national park, created in Rwanda, one of Africa's smallest and most densely populated nations.