The total number of nonhuman primates in research in the United States was 71,921 in 2021 (the most recent year for which figures are available), according to the US Department of Agriculture. This ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

these extinct primates to the continent—painting an incredible story of survival against the odds. Millions of years before the first human took to the seas, the first daring expedition across ...

Both primate species are listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning they are at a very high risk of extinction in the wild. It is thought there are less than 4,500 mature Javan gibbons left in ...

The primates broke loose from Alpha Genesis in Yemassee, Beaufort County, in South Carolina. The company confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's ...

What is more, I have used my own primate life-list, now at more than 400 species and subspecies, as a stimulus to engage others. In fact, I have been a primate-watcher and primate life-lister ...