Let’s be honest: tarsiers look odd. Among the smallest of all primates, most species of tarsier would fit easily in the palm of your hand. They have long, slender, largely hairless tails and elongated ...

Small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, with enormous eyes and an appetite for meat, tarsiers are an anomaly of nature. They are also our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington ...

It can turn its head by 180 degrees on either direction, a feat that is seen only in horror movies. Its huge eyes stare out from a body that is no bigger than that of a rat. Possessing the ...

Nocturnal creatures that weigh in at a maximum of about 120 grams (or 4.3 ounces) when fully grown, tarsiers can nevertheless easily leap as far as three meters (about 10 feet) or more in a single ...

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Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! What better way to celebrate than by ooh-ing and aww-ing over two newly-discovered species of tarsier that look exactly like Yoda if he were extremely high? A new study ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Meet the Dinagat tarsier, the newest Philippine tarsier species. The University of the Philippines announced this ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Let's be honest: tarsiers look odd. Among the ...

Tarsiers -- tiny, carnivorous primates -- are our distant cousins, according to scientists who sequenced and analyzed the tarsier genome. Their findings place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch that ...