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There are two answers: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. Both of these answers have 5 numbers in them.
All prime numbers are odd numbers. If one were even, it would be divisible by two and would, therefore, not be prime.
Prime numbers are numbers that have only 2 factors, 1 and itself. The number one is not prime or composite. Most prime numbers are odd. There is only one composite even number, 2.
It is hard to for historians to know exactly who "discovered" prime numbers. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians had some knowledge about prime numbers. However it was the ancient Greeks who get most of the credit for being the "first" to study prime numbers.
The only prime number that's even is 2 the rest are odd but that doesn't mean ALL odd numbers are prime. Many are but not most.