It was after midnight in Quito when Stella de la Torre came for me, waiting under a streetlamp next to the black minivan that ...

Q. You recently mentioned dwarf mondo grass. Is this also called dwarf monkey grass? My landscaper planted a patch. Some of the plugs are doing great; others are mostly brown and they are in the same ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just 119 grams, thrives along riverbanks. Its unique diet of tree sap and insects, ...

COULD the world’s tiniest monkey help unravel the mysterious origins of Homo floresiensis, the “hobbit” human relative? The hobbit’s skull is similar to that of a taller hominin, Homo erectus. This ...

What, fellow arsians, what do you think of me getting a monkey? I'd like one that can play baseball, like in the movie Ed. Seriously though, I could go for a chimpanzee, but I'm also thinking of an ...

The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador A baby pygmy marmoset, under the care of an older member of its cooperative family group, ...