Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

On a recent day at the Oakland Zoo's animal hospital, across the bay from San Francisco, an endangered Mexican spider monkey leaps onto tree branches, climbs across platforms and swings on ropes in a ...

Primates with longer thumbs also tend to have larger brains, according to new research that sheds light on the co-evolution of hand function and cognitive capacity. Published in Communications Biology ...