Ben Hirsch receives funding from US National Science Foundation. Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains ...

UCLA scientists have developed the first comprehensive road map showing how the ovarian reserve forms in primates, providing crucial insights into women's health that could revolutionize treatments ...

For the first time, a cloned rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) has lived into adulthood — surviving for more than two years so far. The feat, described today in Nature Communications, marks the first ...

Primates - the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans - first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

Fifty-nine days ago, a monkey in Shanghai gave birth to a clone. The infant was the first primate to be cloned using tissue cells, the technique that produced Dolly the sheep. A second monkey, ...

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Primates—the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans—first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

On August 29, 2024, a fossilized snail, horse and early ancestor of modern primates made a short trip to space aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The recent launch of ...

Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of the consistent, daily use of the same ...