Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) are a highly successful primate radiation, with more than 130 living species and the broadest geographic range of any extant group except humans. Although ...

Researchers have used fossilized teeth found near Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya to identify a new monkey species -- a discovery that helps fill a 6-million-year gap in primate evolution. UNLV ...

This news release is also available in Spanish, Japanese, French and Catalan. A new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ...

March 12 (UPI) --Ancient fossilized teeth discovered in Kenya have helped paleontologists fill a gap in the record of Old World monkey evolution. The 22-million-year-old teeth belonged to a newly ...

Researchers have produced two monkeys with a procedure similar to that used to clone a sheep in Scotland, a development expected to help research into AIDS, alcoholism, depression and other illnesses.