We thought the subject of the research published this week seemed familiar. Back in the year 2016, SlashGear featured a story on the possibility that ancient monkeys crossed a large body of water to ...

The macaques of Japan’s Koshima Island are a clever bunch. Well known for performing some remarkably complex tasks, such as washing sweet potatoes and filtering wheat from sand in the seawater, ...

Fossil teeth can be used to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned using a new technique developed to study teeth from human infants and monkeys (Nature, May 22, 2013). Using the technique, the ...

The macaques of Japan’s Koshima Island are a clever bunch. Well known for performing some remarkably complex tasks, such as washing sweet potatoes and filtering the wheat from sand in the seawater, ...

Monkeys have lived in South America for 36 million years, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This news comes despite the fact that the creatures likely didn't originate on that ...

Teeth have a story to tell, and sometimes that story has a surprising twist. Researchers have long studied the arrangement and condition of teeth to determine an animal’s age, diet, health and even ...

March 12 (UPI) --Ancient fossilized teeth discovered in Kenya have helped paleontologists fill a gap in the record of Old World monkey evolution. The 22-million-year-old teeth belonged to a newly ...

The teeth of a new fossil monkey, unearthed in the badlands of northwest Kenya, help fill a 6-million-year void in Old World monkey evolution, according to a new study. The teeth of a new fossil ...

A new species of monkey that lived 22 million years ago in Africa "helps fill a 6-million-year void" in primate evolution, according to a new study. "For a group as highly successful as the monkeys of ...

From the riverbed of the Río Alto Madre de Dios in southeastern Peru, researchers have found an extremely small tooth that belonged to a species of tiny monkey that lived some 18 million years ago.

Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports ...