U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to end the use of primates in federally funded research, a wish that could have dramatic consequences for S.C.’s famous “Monkey Island” and ...

A new black-handed spider monkey (also called Geoffroy’s spider monkey) was born at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo on Dec. 18, the zoo announced in a news release. The baby is currently on display to ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A rhesus macaque who spent a week on the lam in Mississippi in ...

A rhesus macaque monkey named Forrest is now living at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Lacey. Forrest was one of eight lab monkeys that escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi. Of the three monkeys ...

A rhesus macaque that spent a week on the run after escaping from a Mississippi highway crash has found a permanent home at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River. The animal refuge is hoping for ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. San Francisco — San Francisco Opera’s hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final ...

Mississippi law considers certain animals "inherently dangerous" due to their potential to cause serious harm. The list of dangerous animals includes various primates, large carnivores, elephants, and ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...

Researchers in China recently made an astonishing announcement: They’d created a supercomputer modeled on a monkey’s brain. Researchers at the National Key Laboratory of Brain-Computer Intelligence at ...

There’s a new hero in the world of opera, one with amazing superpowers, an unstoppable mission — and a tail. “The Monkey King,” created by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, hearkens ...