The real question is not the legality of having a pet monkey, but the ethics of keeping these creatures in captivity. From ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Pensioner bitten to death by monkey after macaque breaks into his home - Rogue macaques have been terrorising parts of Thailand since the pandemic ...

Heated disagreements about sexuality and gender are front and center in today's culture wars. Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues in his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years ...

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs ...

Primates are the most fascinating and diverse mammals on Earth, ranging from familiar monkeys to bizarre, unusual and ...