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Research by UCLA life scientists and 50 colleagues sheds new light on the biological differences among more than 150 species of monkeys in South America, many of which are endangered. Their findings ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a new species of fluff-covered monkey had been hiding in plain sight, disguised as similar species that we already knew about. The newly named Plecturocebus parecis was ...

A group of fluffy grey monkeys living in the Amazon rainforest belong to a new species. They were first spotted by biologists a century ago, but have only now been recognised by scientists as a ...

At least 441 new species of animals and plants have been discovered over the past four years in the vast, underexplored rainforest of the Amazon. The discoveries from 2010 to 2013, include a ...

Some 18 million years ago, a tiny monkey weighing little more than a baseball lived in the Amazon rainforest, the smallest fossil monkey known worldwide. The finding is based on a single tooth, twice ...