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 ...

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 ...

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.

Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has been preserved as fossils. After death, most primate bodies are eventually dismantled and devoured by predators, scavengers ...

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 ...

The majority of the 78 skulls seized are believed to belong to primates including the Orangutan, raising the alarm on the targeting of the Critically Endangered ape for the exotic souvenir trade. The ...