A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled ...

Their efforts focused on highlighting the potential risks of disease transmission, environmental damage, and the ethical dilemma posed by using monkeys for medical research. Long-tailed macaque, also ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis Strait proto-microcontinent. This discovery changes our understanding of ...

PETA, which opposes the use of animals for research, said the monkeys could have been given to caretakers or sanctuaries. “Experiments on animals fail to produce cures and treatments for humans ...

Tourists also get the opportunity to spot wild Barbary macaques, which are the only wild monkeys in Europe. However, if you are seeking out the primates, you should be very careful in doing so.

A baby Rhesus macaque monkey NOT used in a recent study for a new drug developed by Houston scientists that caused obese monkeys to lose 10 percent of their body weight in a month, sits in its cage at ...

Her $60 million contract with the NIH included studying the effects of the vaccines for the deadly disease on macaques, a type of primate. Fortune told the Boston Globe the macaques may have to be ...

Some populations of monkeys wash sand from foods when standing water is readily accessible, but this propensity varies within groups for reasons unknown. Spontaneous food-washing emerged recently in a ...

Monkeys, those fascinating members of the primate family, come in various shapes and sizes, typically sporting long tails. Alongside them, you’ll find macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, ...

A Missouri foster mother has been charged with child abuse and endangerment as authorities investigate whether she traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas for a monkey and mistreated other ...

In our study, we compared these connectivity fingerprints across the human, chimpanzee, and macaque monkey brain. The chimpanzee is, together with the bonobo, our closest living relative. The macaque ...

Baby monkeys who receive more care from their mothers ... The study by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) involved 83 rhesus macaques from 15 different social groups. Babies were observed with ...