They may look like they’ve had one too many espressos, but a group of small, wide-eyed primates from the Philippines are our distant cousins. Scientists have found that the tarsier - a small Yoda-like ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s most endangered primates, was thought extinct ...

Mother and baby Tarsier in Tangkoko. Photo by Rhett Butler. The spectral tarsier of Sulawesi is one of the world’s smallest primates, weighing roughly the equivalent ten U.S. quarters when full-grown.

Genetic code of lovably weird 'anomaly of nature' shown to be remarkably similar to our own It’s a bizarre beastie that looks like a monster from the eighties movie Gremlins. But it turns out the ...

Episode on May 7, 2008 Tuesday night after Saksi This Wednesday, Born to be Wild takes you on an encounter with two fascinating animals so closely identified with the Philippines - the Tarsier and the ...

LAWRENCE — It's not a monkey. It's not a lemur. It's not an African Bush Baby or even a Madagascan Mouse. Meet the Philippine tarsier: a tiny, adorable and downright "cool" primate from Southeast Asia ...

People think tarsiers are cute and want to keep them. They don’t realize that tarsiers don’t survive for very long outside their natural habitat.” The government’s tourism campaign, which often ...

WITH their massive eyes, tarsiers are high on most people’s cute list. But extreme cuteness comes at a price. The eyes are so big that each eyeball, at 16 millimetres in diameter, takes up the same ...

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“Shhhh…no camera…no light…no action!” Carlito Pizarras, the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary field supervisor, whispered, putting a finger on his mouth. Our ...