The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States, reveals that ...

Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

“The Zika virus outbreak in Brazil has been thought to have been mainly transmitted between humans by mosquitoes,” Vincent Racaniello of Columbia ... Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director ...

Abra hopes the structures can help turn things around for some of Brazil’s vulnerable and endangered species, like the Groves’ titi, the Schneider’s marmoset, and the Guiana Spider Monkey.

Golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in humid forests, but some populations appear to have adapted to life in drier habitats with the help of stone tools ...

and Brazil. Woolly monkeys were once considered four species: the gray, Columbian, silvery, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys. More recent genetic studies suggest there are only two ...

Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency ... in 1958 when two outbreaks of a smallpox-like disease occurred in monkey colonies kept for research. The first human case of monkeypox was recorded ...