Scientists studying footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Emory’s monkey experiments are cruel and pointless. Mar Sanchez’s team has removed infant monkeys from their mothers, subjected them to abuse and exposed them to cocaine to study addiction.

A letter from Dr. Anthony Fauci to Rep. Nancy Mace lifts the veil on secrecy surrounding government-funded NIH experiments ...

The team from the Max Planck Institute started putting the camera traps on the ground on Jicarón Island in 2017. "These monkeys don't have terrestrial predators, so these capuchins spend the ...

The monkeys have been observed using special vocal calls, dubbed "phee calls," to identify one another in communication, according to a new paper in the journal Science. This discovery places ...

However, Mesagno told Live Science in an email that the human concept of "choking under pressure" can be related to social anxiety, a phenomenon that may not be observed in monkeys.

As a new study published in Science Advances reveals, our primate cousins apparently have some very similar habits, and marmoset monkeys in particular are skilled at listening in to their peers.

Monkeys will not be able to type the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, before the death of the universe, a new study suggests. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Jupiter take-off from Cape Canaveral last week was routine. The fat, 60-ft. IRBM rose from its pad, climbed through thin clouds, curved toward the southeast and vanished among the stars. No one ...

Marmoset monkeys use distinctive, whistle-like “phee calls” to address specific monkeys, similar to how humans use names, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

Australian scientists have tested an old adage claiming that a monkey could eventually write Shakespeare if given unlimited time. Getty Images It’s a midsummer’s pipe dream. Chimpanzees might ...