The Soviet Union stopped launching dogs in the 1960s. The United States ended its primate program around then, too, save for two squirrel monkeys who joined astronauts on a Space Shuttle flight in ...

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's 'Space Dogs' couches an observation of present ... reminding us of the primates America sent into orbit after Laika.) Press materials quote a review suggesting ...

The U.S. was the first country ever to launch a primate ... space shuttle Challenger's STS-51-B mission in April-May 1985.) The United States' space race rival, the Soviet Union, primarily used ...

Within the forests of prehistoric Germany, there lived a species of primate that paleontologists believe was the smallest of the great apes. It was roughly the size of a small dog! In comparison ...

It's not just man's closer primate relatives that exhibit brain power. Dolphins, dogs and elephants are teaching us a few lessons, too. Dolphin brains involve completely different wiring from ...

Frightened babies expose their teeth; happy babies stretch their lips without extreme tooth exposure. Other primates expose their ... tenses etc. Thus a dog can’t tell another dog: “I will ...

For several decades scientists have known the close link in primates between ... they say these chewing teeth come in only when enough of a “mechanically safe” space is created.

If we can understand these relationships, we can use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of our early hominin ancestors and other extinct primates. As any five-year-old child familiar with ...

An artist’s rendering shows the early primate species known as Purgatorius mckeeveri. (Andrey Atuchin Illustration via Burke Museum) The shapes of fossilized teeth from 65.9 million-year-old ...