Our listener Scott sent us on a quest to discover the origins of predators and prey, and to find out what all this ‘eat or be eaten’ stuff is really about.

It's time for the misfits and downright eccentrics of the animal kingdom to get the attention they fully deserve.

Researchers have discovered a weird, new behavior among capuchin monkeys, and it involves kidnapping howler monkey infants.

A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and ...

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl away. Camera footage showed one occasion when an adult howler came and tried ...

A gang of young white-faced capuchins, clever monkeys already known for inventing the use of stone tools, has taken to ...

From tree-swingers to tool-users, we explore what makes each primate unique, powerful, or just plain strange ... tired of working and have very little savings — is it possible to live off ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Is a longevity pill on the horizon? Harvard Medical School professor David Sinclair certainly thinks so – while staring down ...

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the centennial of quantum mechanics’ framework, Hubble’s 35th anniversary and the legacy of Kanzi the bonobo.

A small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, known as Monkey Island, is home to nearly 2,000 Rhesus macaques. In 2017, ...