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 ...

WHAT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE people make when they bring home a new puppy? Helen St. Pierre groaned. “I could write a novel about that,” she said. The condensed version: “People need to understand that ...

The effort has sparked uncertainty in South Carolina, where a research company maintains a free-ranging monkey colony on ...

The effects of long-term stays in space can be negative on a number of biological systems, and this mission should help us to ...

There are surprising similarities between how monkeys and humans imbibe. Jan. 21, 2011— -- The physiological and genetic similarities between humans and monkeys make the hairier primates a great ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

Swaths of northern India are gripped by a heatwave, hitting humans as well as wildife including monkeys. Here, monkeys sit on a roadside in India's capital New Delhi ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

This occurred about 40 years ago. And it’s been almost 20 years since the National Academy of Sciences suggested that a ...