Around 450 squirrel-sized marmoset monkeys reside at Texas Biomed's primate center, aiding research on aging, health span and longevity.

Children across Watauga County have penned their Christmas wishes to Santa Claus this year, and their letters reveal equal measures of childhood wonder and creativity.

The zoo announced Friday that on the morning of Dec. 7, zookeepers discovered Kivuli, the black-and-white colobus monkey, had ...

In this super funny video, the adorable monkey Cutis decides to open his own restaurant after realizing he doesn’t have money to pay for the goat’s meal at another place. With his baby monkey friend ...

In this funny and adorable story, Cutis acts very strangely — he hides his bed sheet inside a black bag and quietly starts washing it. His baby monkey sibling watches in total confusion, not ...

Ant pupae are unable to move, however, so they've developed a unique mechanism that leads them to sacrifice their own life for the betterment of the nest. Researchers in Austria have discovered that ...

In a remarkable display of self-sacrifice, baby ants infected with a deadly fungus deliberately signal worker ants to kill them. This extreme measure prevents the spread of disease, protecting the ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

If you’re a human, the courteous thing to do when you get sick is to isolate yourself from others so that you don’t get them sick, too. If you’re an adult ant, that same courtesy still applies. But ...

A sorrowful incident occurred along the Mopa Airport road when a mother monkey, carrying her newborn, was reportedly hit by a four-wheeler. The injured mother died on the spot, while her baby clung to ...