The continent’s spider monkeys, capuchins, and marmosets form their own primate group, separate from those in Africa and Asia. The leading theory is the ancestors of these monkeys somehow rafted ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

Monkeys are extremely intelligent animals and are one of the closest relatives to humans. Because of this, monkeys show intelligent behavior, with many of them similar to people. Some monkey behaviors ...

Security cameras at a café in Maha Sarakham, Thailand captured a brazen daylight heist in late February. A pastry-loving ...

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones. They've been ...

Often dismissed as ‘unfair’, ‘unreliable’ and driven by ‘herd behaviour’, rating agencies still wield considerable influence over African economies. So how do they operate – and what defines a ...

Broyhill Asset Management, an investment advisor, released its first quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Broyhill Partners appreciated 2.8% net of all fees ...

Today, we’re heading to a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, known as Monkey Island, which is home to nearly 2,000 Rhesus macaques. In 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated the island’s vegetation, ...

The Chagos Archipelago holds geopolitical and environmental importance. Additionally, Chagos has long been the subject of a dispute between Mauritius and the UK, which held on to these islands for ...

To build on this positive development, Physicians Committee experts have submitted a public comment requesting that the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) advisory ...

Capuchin monkeys are mainly known for their intelligence and resourcefulness. However, scientists have come across a strange, new behavior among the primates: child abduction. Per Smithsonian ...

Over 100,000 monkeys are used in U.S. biomedical research and endure severe suffering with little benefit to human health, argue Santa Cruz wildlife veterinarian Emily Talkington and attorney Mikalah ...