A Missouri foster mother accused of trading a teenage girl for a monkey avoided prison time, even as a judge condemned her as reprehensible and apologized to her alleged victims for a foster care ...

High in the forested canopy of Democratic Republic of Congo, an all-black monkey turned its back to a photographer’s camera. The partial image taken in 2008 revealed little more than the monkey’s dark ...

Punch, the monkey who was abandoned by his mother after being born, is growing up. He celebrated his first birthday on Sunday with about 2,500 cards from around the world. The letters are on display ...

A newly discovered species of monkey with distinctive orange lips has been discovered deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The small primate, called Colobus congoensis, was ...

A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Colobus congoensis, known to local people as Likweli, is ...

A newly discovered species of monkey with striking orange lips has been found in the east-central Democratic Republic of Congo. The monkey — Colobus congoensis — is only the fifth new species of ...

It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years. By Kate Golembiewski Blurry photos are often held up as supposed evidence of elusive creatures like Nessie and ...

A monkey with a distinctive mask-like face, found in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been declared a new species – only the fifth new species of monkey documented from ...

An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the ...

In the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientists have identified a previously unknown species of African monkey—one of the rarest discoveries in modern primatology. Named ...

Punch the monkey fans can put their hearts and minds at ease: The once-abandoned baby macaque is making more and more friends, according to his caretakers. So many, in fact, that he may be outgrowing ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. And his zookeeper has told CNN that the seemingly ...