Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing baby monkeys as he sought to contain a brewing scandal and kept ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that humans and primates share many common traits (and the vast majority of our DNA), but some monkey behaviors ...

I can’t be the only one who got completely drawn into the story of Punch, the baby macaque who bonded with a stuffed toy after being abandoned by his mother. Today, Punch continues to draw attention — ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody ...