Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

A Japanese macaque named Punch has gone viral. A biologist explains how his journey from abandonment to social integration ...

Learn about the different ways mammals descended from trees and what this can tell us about early primate evolution.

From early on, what has set the human species apart from all others is the ability to direct ever-increasing power toward our ...

Abandoned at birth, a baby Japanese macaque finds comfort in a stuffed orangutan as scientists unpack the stress and survival behind maternal rejection ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...