When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

When it comes to primate species from across the globe, they don't get much cuter than the pygmy marmosets of the Amazon Rainforest, aka the smallest species of monkeys in the world. These little ...

SAN DIEGO - New paleontological findings show that small primates roamed San Diego roughly 45 million years ago. Several new species of extinct primates were recently identified by scientists after ...

For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...

Visitors at Zoo Boise may spot a new addition to its animal family — a miniature white-maned monkey, clinging to the back of a parent or one of its older siblings. The zoo welcomed a cotton-top ...

If great apes are known for anything, it’s being great in size. A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus was likely a hundred pounds or so ...