Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a ...

Surgeries on primates have become more common in recent years. With a better understanding of how anesthesia affects them, ...

Punch, a six-month-old baby macaque monkey from Japan, is capturing the hearts of users on the internet with his unlikely friendship with a popular stuffed animal. Punch was rejected by his mother ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --The Oakland Zoo in California announced the birth of a red-tailed monkey -- the first primate of his species to be born at the facility. The zoo said on social media that parents ...