As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant ...

This is not the first time primates have escaped from Alpha Genesis. CBS affiliate WCSC in Charleston at the time reported that local officials said the escapes were not infrequent but generally ...

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are the first non-human primates cloned through this technique. In 1999, a rhesus monkey embryo was split in two in order to create two identical twins. One of the baby ...

Alpha Genesis monkeys that escaped over a month ago are still on the loose. They fled from the sprawling research facility ...

Before undertaking an expedition to collect fossil primates, paleontologists first look to geologic maps of a region to determine if rocks of the right time period are actually present and exposed ...

Primate locomotion is the study of movements ... They also have an opposable first digit as well as wide fingers and toes with broad palms or soles. This greater surface-area contact with arboreal ...

"We do not even really understand how the primates themselves classify their own vocal repertoires - this needs to come first before correlations are made," she said. "We [also] know that many ...

Since the escape of 43 primates on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis research laboratory in South Carolina, the facility has come under scrutiny ...