Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

Three monkeys died at a Hendry County primate facility, sparking criticism from animal-rights groups. The company says deaths ...

"Primate mothers are some of the best mothers you will find in the animal kingdom," one expert said. So what happened with ...

Most of the 43 monkeys that escaped Thursday from Alpha Genesis are hanging out in the trees in the forest just beyond the facility’s fence line, the company’s owner said Friday morning. The escaped ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

Like most others who heard the tragic news, I was saddened to learn that five monkeys were shot and killed by sheriffs last week, and two others shot by area residents this week, when they escaped a ...

YEMASEE, S.C. -- More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered, ABC News reported. As of Sunday evening, 25 of the 43 furry runaways, that ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Deborah Misotti founded the Talkin' Monkeys Project in Clewiston to rescue monkeys and apes from illegal and abusive ...

• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...