For once, there’s good news in animal conservation. A population of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys ( Rhinopithecus avunculus ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

The Oregon National Primate Research Center will explore a potentially federally supported transition with the National Institutes of Health ...

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 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A young Japanese macaque has won the hearts of millions on the Internet after viral videos show the ...

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 ...

Caregivers say Punch has begun interacting more regularly with the troop.

Dozens of monkeys are on the loose in South Carolina after escaping a research center. Update at 5:50 p.m. from Yemassee Police Department:"Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard told CBS earlier today ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Primate tourism, an economic benefit and conservation tool in many habitat countries, has exploded in popularity over the past two decades in places like China, Borneo, Uganda, Rwanda ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.