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• Our ancestors had floppy, flexible gibbon feet
This family of primates shares a common ancestor with the great apes (chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans). Gibbons walk upright up to 12 percent of the time, Vereecke said. Like other modern apes, gibbons sport a flexible joint midway along the ...
• Woolly mammoth task: Critter's DNA mapped
Primates evolved twice as fast as elephants," Schuster said. But some animals such as rodents have had even more evolutionary changes, indicating that it might have to do with size or metabolism, said study co-author Webb Miller. Another interesting ...
• Real-life Furbys rediscovered
Gursky-Doyen specializes in the behavior and conservation of nonhuman primates, and has been trapping other species of tarsiers for years. "I truly believe that the difference is my skill in trapping," she said. She and her colleagues deployed about ...
• Two new 'flying lemur' species identified
These mammals are the closest living relatives to primates (humans are primates too), having diverged from that group about 86 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous. Before now, scientists recognized just two colugo species, the Sunda colugo ...
• Want to attract guys? Wear red
Noting the genetic similarity of humans to higher primates, he said scientists have shown that certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring ...