Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

A study finds that young female chimps build nests earlier and more often than males, showing early independence.

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...