Capuchin monkeys use stones almost half their body weight as tools to open shellfish, nuts and other foods — among the first of its kind to do so You can save this article by registering for free here ...

A few million years ago, our human ancestors began picking up rocks and using them as tools, marking the beginning of the Stone Age. Now a group of monkeys in Panama may have entered a Stone Age of ...

Animal behavior researchers have released incredible video of pint-sized Capuchin monkeys using stone tools to forage for their food in Brazil's Ubajara National Park. The team recorded 214 cases in ...

The bearded capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus) is a nimble little monkey found in the forests of northeast Brazil. S. libidinosus is not a particularly picky eater, and will happily chow down on flowers, ...

CTV News Channel: 'Pretty startling news' Case Western Reserve's School of Medicine's Insoo Hyun says the successful cloning of monkeys is a remarkable breakthrough.

In a remarkable experiment, monkeys have used mind control to get a robotic arm to feed themselves fruit and marshmallows. The robot, controlled by the animals' thoughts, reaches out for the treat, ...

The University of Toronto's last two research monkeys are dead and gone, euthanized less than three weeks ago after seven years of experiments into movement and pain in the human mouth. The use of ...

Monkeys equipped with wireless brain implants were able to control robotic wheelchairs using only their thoughts, according to a new study. The brain waves of two rhesus macaques were used to direct ...

Every year on December 14th, World Monkey Day serves as a reason to celebrate these amazing animals. This year, we’re ...

Marmoset monkeys have been found to use specific calls to name each other, a behaviour previously thought to exist only in humans, dolphins and elephants. Naming other individuals in a population is a ...

On the same day it was revealed an orangutan was declared a ‘non-human person’ by an Argentine court, a monkey on the other side of the world did a very heroic human act by reviving its shocked ...