Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...

Lowland Streaked Tenrec is a spiny mammal that's native to Madagascar. It's unique black and yellow appearance and quirky ...

UP Biologists found Philippine Tarsier behaviors that defy expectations, and could suggest a new species. Found along the coast of Northern Mindanao, the 50-hectare Initao-Libertad Protected Landscape ...

Modern tarsiers are tree-dwelling primates that live on Southeast Asian islands. The tarsier lineage split off from the anthropoids, the lineage that gave rise to monkeys, apes, and humans, just ...

A spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) feeding on a grasshopper in Tangkoko National Park, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tarsiers have five chitinase genes to digest the high amount of chitin in ...

Believed to be extinct, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates had not been seen alive since 1921 ... when they accidentally trapped and killed an infamous pygmy tarsier. In August of last ...

Even these, however, are only the closest of our relatives within the Order Primates – a group that includes organisms as diverse as ring-tailed lemurs, tarsiers, and monkeys from both the Old ...