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Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands National Park, New Mexico. New research finds that these people lived through climate chaos.

Natalie Robinson is an orangutan researcher and conservationist, and a PhD candidate at Rutgers University. She studies how food, energy, and ecology shape reproduction in wild Bornean orangutans.

A gorilla researcher shares mountain gorilla facts along with some of the questions Leakey Foundation-supported researchers are working to answer now.

Ariel N. Barrera is a PhD candidate and Leakey Foundation grantee exploring when and how our modern facial anatomy took shape.

An active fire crisis is threatening critical wild orangutan habitat across West Kalimantan.

Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Carney D. Matheson, Griffith University; Fakhri, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN); Melandri Vlok, Charles Sturt University, and Roger Papke, University of Florida Humans everywhere use … Continued

Florence Aghomo is a Baldwin Fellow and PhD candidate from Cameroon who studies endangered lemurs in Madagascar. Her work will help answer questions critical for their conservation and survival.

When an unexpected funding crisis threatened one of the world’s longest-running studies of wild orangutans, The Leakey Foundation stepped in.

A new study brings together 427 documented cases of primates interacting with other species, giving insights into why humans keep pets.

With support from The Leakey Foundation, researchers have developed and tested CapuchinAI, a portable field station that pairs a webcam and touchscreen with machine learning to help scientists study primate cognition in the wild.