Feb 14, 2022 · Monkeys are a large group of primates spread around the world with many unique families, species and types, from mini marmosets to massive mandrills.

Dec 28, 2025 · Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not ...

Oct 29, 2025 · Lab monkeys initially thought to be carrying a range of diseases have escaped from a truck in Mississippi following a crash — prompting law enforcement officers to kill a number of the …

May 21, 2021 · A colony of wild African green monkeys living near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport finally gets an origin story.

May 19, 2025 · Young male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.

Jul 3, 2023 · The mother repeatedly tried to catch the dead infant's gaze before throwing the corpse around her enclosure and eventually devouring it.

Dec 15, 2024 · The infinite monkey theorem says that, given enough time, monkeys could randomly replicate the works of Shakespeare. But is it really true? (Image credit: tombie via Getty Images)

Jan 21, 2017 · Latest Videos From Live Science Unlike other monkeys, baboons stay on the ground much of the time. They do sleep, eat or keep watch in trees, though.

Mar 29, 2017 · Marmosets are small monkeys that live high up in the canopies of South American rainforests. There are more than 20 species, and most could fit comfortably in an adult human's hand.

Feb 18, 2020 · No one knows how consciousness works in the brain, but a team of neuroscientists seems to have found an engine that keeps it going.