On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for ...

On Dec. 4, 1959, rhesus monkey Sam (named for the acronym for the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine) was launched on a ...

A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated for the first time in non-human primates that auditory stimulation at 40-Hz significantly ...

iPhone's "System Data" can take up a lot of space on your smartphone. Here's what we know. Credit: Future Publishing via Getty Images It's a dreaded notification that some iPhone users have come to ...

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed "Gwada negative," France's blood supply agency has announced. The first ...

We finally know what happened to the final captured rhesus monkey that had escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi. The primate had been among the 21 rhesus monkeys being transported through ...

Where was the escaped monkey shot? Can rhesus monkeys infect people with diseases? What do if I see a monkey in Mississippi? Three monkeys had been unaccounted for after their accidental release when ...

A Mississippi homeowner on Sunday killed one of three research monkeys that had escaped from their overturned transport truck, fearing they carried diseases that could harm one of her five children.

One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children. Jessica Bond ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --A rhesus monkey missing in rural Mississippi was found Sunday, according to authorities searching for the last few primates that escaped from a crashed truck hauling nearly two dozen of ...