Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. With their long, bulbous, and droopy noses, male proboscis monkeys ...

The proboscis monkey grew his famously big nose so he could get more sex, according to a new study. The male of the endangered species' droopy conk evolved to attract mates, say scientists.

It may seem hard to believe, but male proboscis monkeys use their fleshy, pendulous noses to attract mates. Scientists think these outsize organs create an echo chamber that amplifies the monkey ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

And the proboscis monkey observations seem to support precisely this theory. They reveal that on the whole the monkeys eat longer and therefore presumably more on days when they display ruminant ...

The brothers look for the origin of a sound, and it turns out to be a proboscis monkey! The Kratt brothers find a group of proboscis monkeys. The gang talks about their nose – their most notable ...

Martin tries to call for help using his proboscis monkey nose as a predator approaches. At first he has trouble with it, but a loud noise resounds as a smaller monkey's tail causes him to sneeze ...

But then he noticed other little details. “Its nose was long like that of a proboscis monkey, and its tail was thicker than that of a silvered leaf [monkey],” he says. He posted a picture of ...