The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

On Tuesday, the world met "Ida" -- a 47-million-year-old primate fossil touted as a "REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING," according to a press ...

Modern anthropoids are classified to the primate infraorders Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) and Catarrhini (Old World monkeys, apes, and humans). Basicranial flexion - the angular relationship ...

Old World nonhuman primates commonly found in research institutions are distinguished by the following characteristics: Social disposition: Like human primates, nonhuman primates have an inherent need ...

during the Miocene the ancestors of Old World monkeys and apes experienced both radiations and extinctions that have been linked to climate change (Harrison 2010). In the early Miocene, primates ...