Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of ...

A paleoartist's depiction of Purgatorius. Researchers recently found teeth of this ancient primate in Colorado, the furthest south evidence of this creature has been discovered so far. Andrey Atuchin ...

SAN DIEGO - New paleontological findings show that small primates roamed San Diego roughly 45 million years ago. Several new species of extinct primates were recently identified by scientists after ...

AUSTIN, Texas, October 20, 2008 (ENS) - More than 43 million years ago, when tropical forests and active volcanoes covered west Texas, primates chose to live there in preference to cooler northern ...

WASHINGTON — One of the earliest primates lived in trees and relied more on smell than vision, a new study indicates. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago in ...

Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient near-primates lived above the Arctic Circle some 52 million years ago, according to new ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, traced the evolutionary origins of kissing and described their work on Evolution and Human Behavior as the first attempt to reconstruct its ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back in ...