The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

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NEW YORK -- For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys? A new study of long-tailed macaques suggests the monkeys seem to like some of the same kind ...

Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, in a study intended to provide insights into the unique evolution of human intelligence. Researchers inserted human versions of MCPH1, ...

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research suggests. Scientists investigated the “abrupt frequency jumps” in monkey ...

“Ramadewa looked at the numerous troops of monkeys. They were at ease and happy and showed their liveliness. All their movements, their noisy voices, their way of sleeping on branches made him happy ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 necessarily ...