Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution

Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.

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‘Missing-link’ primate likely to stir debate

Scientists at the center of a multimedia maelstrom announced Tuesday that a 47-million-year-old fossil may represent the common ancestor of all primates, ranging from humans and apes to lemurs.

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Early skeleton sheds light on primate evolution

The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

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Real-life Furbys rediscovered

A primate species that looks like a living, breathing version of the Furby electronic toy has been found alive in the forested highlands of an Indonesian island for the first time in more than 70 years, scientists announced Tuesday.

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Report: 125,000 gorillas found in African zone

Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population.

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The response takes its name from a graph ([image in article]) of human emotional response as a function of a depiction's human-likeness.

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Experiments showed the birds - which belong to the corvid family that includes crows, ravens and magpies - perceive the physical rules of support with the same degree of intelligence as a six month old baby. More Articles

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The owners of a Richardson, Texas, gardening store have surveillance video of what appears to be a monkey burglarizing their business. Plants and Planters has been burglarized several times, but co-owner Jerry Duncan said it's "definitely never been robbed by a monkey before. …

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Whales, we now know, teach and learn. They scheme. They cooperate, and they grieve. They recognize themselves and their friends. They know and fight back against their enemies.

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Rapamycin treatment had the remarkable effect of extending life even though it was not started in the right dose until the mice had lived 600 days — equivalent to a person at age 60.

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A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old age and considerably extend their life span by following a special diet. More Articles

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Despite media hype, the fossil Ida "is not the missing link" between humans (or other anthropoids) and "more primitive primates."

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A missing link in human evolution may have been filled by a remarkable fossil, which could be the common ancestor of all apes and monkeys, including our species.

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Analyses of primate visual pigments show that our color vision evolved in an unusual way and that the brain is more adaptable than generally thought

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"There is no reason for any private citizen to keep a primate as a pet, and this trade is driven by unscrupulous dealers who sell primates across state lines for thousands of dollars," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

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About eight to twelve million years ago, the evolutionary ancestor to humans, chimpanzees, and orangutans appears to have undergone a burst of evolution, driven by duplicated sequences of DNA.

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Racist Code Words and Images Must be Discussed

There are those who claim that the recent New York Post cartoon depicting the author of the "stimulus bill" as a chimpanzee is not racist.

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MONKEYS and apes have a sense of morality and the rudimentary ability to tell right from wrong, according to new research.

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Ever since researchers discovered in the 1970s that humans lacked the genetic variation expected of our population size, they have proposed that our ancestors went through a big squeeze: Volcanic eruptions, disease, or climate change created a population "bottleneck" that reduced …

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Blind and sighted athletes made the same expressions when they won and lost, US researchers found. More Articles

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At the press conference, Keller insisted that the impact crater was formed at least 300,000 years before the great extinction and "caused no species extinctions" - certainly not to the dinosaurs.

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It may look like a gremlin, but this tiny animal is actually a pygmy tarsier, recently rediscovered in the forests of Indonesia. The 2-ounce (57-gram) carnivorous primate had not been seen alive since the 1920s.

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At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade. More Articles

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Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases. Roger Highfield explains more

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The Guardian has been granted exclusive and unfettered access to one of the most controversial research facilities at a British university.

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One of the world's deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.

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Sometimes we're animals.

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Sunshine, a 550-pound silverback gorilla, who had been at the Detroit Zoo since 1996, died Tuesday at the age of 34.

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Macaques may just seem to be indulging in monkey banter, but they can distinguish one another's voices in much the same way that humans do, suggests a new study.

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...."It bit the top of my eyelid and it just kind of latched onto my cheek," she said. She said the monkey's owner helped her put a Band-Aid on her bleeding face, hastily said the animal was up-to-date on its shots and then left. He didn't leave his name...

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