Stories tagged "primates"

The IUCN Red List of primates shows how primates are both threatened and in danger of extinction to human's land grabbing and wars.

Tiny teeth found in a mine suggest an early primate in India.

Primate experts are savoring a rare piece of good news for once about endangered gorillas: After two years of grueling surveys in the Republic of Congo, 125,000 previously uncounted gorillas were discovered there.

Gorilla experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society say they've made a spectacular find in the forests of the Republic of Congo: 125,000 previously undiscovered western lowland gorillas. The animals are critically endangered.

Do people and nonhuman primates use basically the same strategies while making important economic decisions? The question is being taken up by California's Chapman University, thanks to a $170,000 NSF grant..

In Spain, apes are being accorded human rights.

Finding could shed light on why humans develop neurodegenerative diseases and pave the way for new treatments

Chimp and human brains share more similarities than we thought.

"Brainy fellow creatures show that humans are not alone in their ability to invent, plan, or contemplate."

A previously unknown species of uakari found in a mountainous region is already rare and "quite vulnerable," a primatologist announced.