With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It’s ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

Leaps in monkey’s so-called ultra-yodels were ‘up to five times larger’ than in humans, researchers found. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the ...

Leaps in monkey’s so-called ultra-yodels were ‘up to five times larger’ than in humans, researchers found. Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special ...