News Release

July 17, 2003. It was a dramatic demonstration when former Primate Center technician Jennifer Campbell mounded two piles of lemur food — one large, one much smaller — on a table a few years ago. Her point: The center had been unknowingly overfeeding its animals. The larger pile of pounds of food pellets, cabbage and bananas represented […]

March 26, 2003. A small collection of teeth and jaw fragments sifted from the Egyptian desert has provided the earliest fossil evidence for one of the three major lines of primates. The tiny fossils offer evidence that the ancestors of bushbabies and lorises appeared during the Eocene epoch that lasted from 55 million to 34 million years […]