Visitors to Zoo Atlanta's Ford African Rain Forest in the next few weeks may be able to see the zoo's newest little arrival ...

Filmmaker Beth Neale has mourned South African conservationist Steve Smit, known as the ‘Monkey Man’, after his death ...

"When a potential new species is discovered, the evidence has to be overwhelming." ...

Scientists confirmed a new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo after more than a decade ...

Zoo Atlanta is celebrating its newest arrival after a tiny red-tailed monkey was born in its Ford African Rain Forest habitat last week.

A canopy call, a partial photo and DNA revealed a new primate species — one that may already be at risk of extinction.

For years, people living near the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo had spoken about an unusual monkey they called the Likweli. It was known locally, but outside those communities it ...

Hearing that a new primate species has been named is exciting news for scientists because primates across the world are in decline. According to the IUCN Red list, a global inventory of animal ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a unique monkey has been hiding in plain sight. Some locals knew it was there, but scientists had never documented it—until now. A ...

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.

Hearing that a new primate species has been named is exciting news for scientists because primates across the world are in decline. According to the IUCN Red list, a global inventory of animal ...

Blurry photos are often held up as supposed evidence of elusive creatures like Nessie and Bigfoot. But the subject of a fuzzy photo taken nearly two decades ago in remote forests of Congo — a strange, ...