However, according to researchers from Oxford Brookes University, popular tourist shops in Bali contain a large assortment of illegally obtained skulls of primates. The practice is jeopardizing the ...

Unbeknown to them, some may even be committing a crime if they pick up primate skulls — a commodity openly sold in Bali’s curio shops, despite it being illegal. A recent , published in the ...

Primate cranial diversity is the product of alternative evolutionary compromises among competing structural and functional demands on the cranium within divergent primate lineages. Superimposed on ...

Foramen magnum: A large hole at the underside of the skull where the spinal cord enters ... at the lumbar vertebrae (= lower back). Among primates, this is seen only in bipedal hominins.

A largely complete fossil skull of the "Bastetodon syrtos"—replete ... ancestors were evolving—likely preyed on such animals as primates, early elephants, early hippopotamuses and plump ...

Finally, in our primate ancestors, the eyes moved to the front of the skull. This resulted in better depth perception, a critical capability in animals who spend their lives leaping among branches.

Indonesian authorities have shut down a macabre trade in wildlife skulls and parts online, seizing 94 items and detaining two ...

Both critics and proponents of evolution eagerly await the discovery of a "missing link" between humans and other primates. The fossil skull called Piltdown Man seems to be this link. The New York ...

It includes a partial skull with teeth, spinal column ... to thrive in the same trees likely shared with other early primate relatives." Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal ...

CT scan technology revealed previously unknown bones of the skull (colored on the right) that helped demonstrate that picrodontids are not primates as previously believed ...

The specimen includes a partial skull with teeth ... to thrive in the same trees likely shared with other early primate relatives.” Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals ...