Aye-ayes are among the strangest primates on Earth, with their oversized ears, spider-like hands, and—as new research shows—a previously undetected sixth finger. Five fingers per hand tends to be the ...

Nose picking might be thought of as a socially unacceptable behavior among humans but amazingly we are one of 12 species of primate to exhibit this habit. Today a new paper has revealed this behavior ...

A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and ...

You can't pick your primate relatives, but your primate relatives can pick their noses. And they enjoy the taste of what they find, researchers recently learned. One of those primates — aye-ayes, ...

Aye-ayes are an incredibly rare species to spot, but a clever exhibit by a zoo in Colorado means visitors can see them on a visit – and it’s an eerie and remarkable sight. The species is endangered ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --The aye-aye is one the planet's most unusual primates. Thanks to new research, scientists can explain the lemur's unusual features -- its big eyes, large eyes and long, skinny fingers.

Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe’s forehead. Aye-ayes are primates, like humans and monkeys, but they display a ...

A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and ...