A little monkey was found locked in a cupboard with no food, water or fresh air after police broke up a drug-fueled party in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was found to have missing teeth and was ...

Fossil teeth can be used to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned using a new technique developed to study teeth from human infants and monkeys (Nature, May 22, 2013). Using the technique, the ...

Monkeys have lived in South America for 36 million years, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This news comes despite the fact that the creatures likely didn't originate on that ...

The macaques of Japan’s Koshima Island are a clever bunch. Well known for performing some remarkably complex tasks, such as washing sweet potatoes and filtering the wheat from sand in the seawater, ...

The macaques of Japan’s Koshima Island are a clever bunch. Well known for performing some remarkably complex tasks, such as washing sweet potatoes and filtering wheat from sand in the seawater, ...

Teeth have a story to tell, and sometimes that story has a surprising twist. Researchers have long studied the arrangement and condition of teeth to determine an animal’s age, diet, health and even ...

Roughly 54 million years ago, during the early Eocene epoch, the monkey species Microsyops latidens hung out in North America. The monkeys, which looked a heck of a lot like frightened lemurs, ...

AMES, Iowa – It was late in the year, but Panama was still muggy and rain clouds were closing in. A field crew of student-paleontologists wasn’t having much luck, but Aaron Wood kept chipping away at ...