Scientists have recently discovered a new primate species in Myanmar’s central forest. However, the Popa langur, named after nearby Mount Popa, is tragically already on the verge of extinction.

This makes tree life a good fit. If you are looking at a monkey and are not sure what kind it is look at their noses. Old ...

“These fossils indicate that, instead, old world monkey dispersal could have taken place through the Arabian Peninsula even before the Messinian Crisis,” Dr. Gilbert explained. The ...

Specifically, they found that the earliest New World monkey fossils were much older than ... For example, during the Miocene the ancestors of Old World monkeys and apes experienced both radiations ...

“These fossils indicate that, instead, Old World monkey dispersal could have taken place through the Arab region even before the Messinian Crisis,” said Dr. Gilbert, lead author of the stud ...