These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to socially succeed.

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

What is macroevolution? Why is it important? How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution? Understanding macroevolution is important because it explains ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Changes in global and regional climates apparently had profound effects on the evolutionary history of primates ... are to its sister groups Scandentia (tree shrews), Dermoptera (colugos ...

Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are now agreed ... shrinking the habitat where tree-dwelling primates lived and foraged. Another factor possibly upsetting the East African environment ...

While one analysis supported that they were archaic primates, the other did not ... debate over where mixodectids belong on the evolutionary tree, it significantly narrows it," he said.

Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two ...