A wildlife patrol at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo filmed the first-ever video of a “very rare” monkey species. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto During a routine survey at a ...

On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Albert III was the third monkey ...

Until the 1980s people roamed the mountains of Shennongjia in central China hunting monkeys for their meat and fur. Poor farmers were still clearing vast areas of trees, and as their environment ...