By Shanna Hanbury A group of geladas monkeys (Theropithecus gelada), pictured above, huddle to keep warm on a cold day in the ...

It’s a game of monkey mean, monkey grew. Territorial tension may be behind the size of male primates. In many primate species, males have evolved to be bigger than their female counterparts, a ...

Under the proposed legislation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection would deny entry to prohibited shipments, with violations resulting in $50,000 fines and the forfeiture of illegally imported ...

OHSU has begun formal talks about turning the nation’s largest publicly funded primate research center into a sanctuary for its experimental subjects but it’s not clear if that leading idea for the ...

California’s Assembly Bill 2223, which was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, follows a similar pattern but operates through legal ambiguity. The bill prohibits criminal or civil liability for ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

Human violence may not be as “natural” or as fixed in evolution as some long-standing theories suggest, according to new research that argues aggression is not one simple trait. Instead, researchers ...

Aaron covers what's exciting and new in the world of home entertainment and streaming TV. Previously, he wrote about entertainment for places like Rotten Tomatoes, Inverse, TheWrap and The Hollywood ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction. A paleoartist's depiction of ...

Elon Musk has been talking lately about the Kardashev scale. It’s named for Nikolai Kardashev, the Soviet-era astrophysicist who proposed, in 1964, that the use of energy is the essential feature of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For weeks, the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU has been heated and controversial topic. Should they continue research that brings in millions of dollars ...