Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

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 ...

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

Here are a few of the early takeaways: The president celebrated what he called a "stunning economic turnaround," citing ...

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