A paleoartist's depiction of Purgatorius. Researchers recently found teeth of this ancient primate in Colorado, the furthest south evidence of this creature has been discovered so far. Andrey Atuchin ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans. Remains of the now extinct shrew-sized ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

An illustration of Carpolestes simpsoni, a stem primate species that lived in Wyoming at the endof the Paleocene epoch. Credit: Doug M. Boyer/Duke University Departmentof Evolutionary Anthropology ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...