The Houston Zoo announced Wednesday, Altuve's 36th birthday, that its new baby howler monkey is named Tuve in honor of the ...

The Houston Astros haven't had much go their way this season, in terms of injuries, pitching depth, and their standing in the ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is purely the pursuit of understanding the unknown, ...

Monkeys played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 rounds without rewards, highlighting the powerful role of curiosity in ...

Video footage of the incident shared on social media shows the man appearing to throw a rock toward a monk seal swimming ...

Video of a man throwing a large rock at a monk seal in Maui made the rounds on social media. In the clip, the animal was ...

On Panama’s remote Jicarón Island, researchers have documented a baffling behavior: capuchin monkeys carrying baby howler monkeys. Captured on motion-triggered cameras, the phenomenon has no clear ...

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey ...

Ancient relatives of howler monkeys were eating leaves 13 million years ago, providing the earliest clear fossil evidence of leaf consumption among South American primates. That dietary change marked ...

13.3-million–13.6 million-year-old fossils from an extinct relative of the howler monkey show signs of being the first leaf-eating primate in South and Central America. Fossils from jaws of Stirtonia ...