Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

This image highlights (red) behavioral domains in left and right brain hemispheres that show high divergence following comparisons. Top shows domains that differ the most between human and chimpanzee.

The animal rights group is suing the National Institute of Mental Health, saying it has a right to hear and see rhesus ...

"I thought this was a fascinating philosophical and perceptual question that we could study in the macaque visual system." Xiao described two dominant ideas to explain this stability: Neurons in ...

A playful monkey appeared to gently groom a hiker's hair in Taiwan. The Formosan rock macaque was sitting on a safety rail ...

In the brain, not all blood flow is created equal. RIKEN researchers have developed a detailed cortical layer map of the ...

Authorities reminded the public that pets are banned from Kaohsiung’s Shoushan (壽山) and Banpingshan (半屏山) national park areas ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...