"Macaque fetuses might also have skulls that are just as malleable as human fetuses' heads, which aids during birth." A female Japanese macaque nursing her six-month-old infant in winter.

“Macaque fetuses might also have skulls that are just as malleable as human fetuses’ heads, which aids during birth.” Meanwhile, Katharina Pink, PhD, an evolutionary anthropologist and ...

Throughout the 11 years of the study, the researchers observed 754 primate skulls that included macaques, langurs, proboscis monkeys, and orangutans. According to the IUCN Red List, the proboscis ...

Rodrigues Delgado has drilled holes in the skulls of anesthetized rhesus monkeys ... An electric tickle there turned a ferocious rhesus into a macaque Milquetoast; he even let Dr. Delgado take ...

Instead, they appear to have been displaced by modern humans—the taller, more graceful creatures with round skulls and prominent ... from mice to rhesus macaques to chimps, the protein produced ...

By comparing chimpanzee, macaque, and human brains side by side ... the capacity for intricate social behaviors and language co-evolved alongside changes in skull shape and brain volume. The study is ...

His team also secured body parts of protected wildlife, including 70 skulls belonging to primates such as orangutans, macaques, and monkeys; 6 hornbill beaks; 2 bear skulls; 2 hog deer skulls; 8 bear ...

Jaguars are renowned for their strength and unique hunting technique, capable of delivering a powerful bite to the skull of their prey ... and adaptability in the marine world. Japanese macaque ...

This system facilitates deep immunofluorescence imaging of the prefrontal cortex in cleared macaque tissue, extending imaging depth ... The head was secured in a stereotaxic device, and the skull was ...

Phillip Morfin initially thought he was looking at an animal skull but realized it was a human when he saw the victim's eye sockets Sam Gillette is a writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She first joined ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...