The image of a lab monkey on the run after a highway crash is powerful enough to stick in the public imagination, even when the full story behind it is Unverified based on available sources. What is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After years of fighting over the use of animals for research, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and People for the Ethical ...

One of us is a Republican from New York City. One is a Democrat from Las Vegas. The third is an actress and animal welfare advocate. We do not agree on everything, but we agree on this: It is time to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is phasing out research conducted on monkeys, according to a new report. Scientists routinely use rhesus and pig-tailed macaques, housed at the ...

A rhesus macaque monkey named Forrest is now living at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Lacey. Forrest was one of eight lab monkeys that escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi. Of the three monkeys ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. The experiment started by chance. In 2008, summer lightning storms ...