A doctor in Colorado lost both her position in a hospital and her medical school faculty appointment after calling Michelle Obama a “monkey face” who speaks “poor ebonic English.” Dr. Michelle Herren, ...

A Denver doctor has been suspended from seeing patients indefinitely after she called first lady Michelle Obama "monkey face" on Facebook — then insisted her comments were not racist. According to the ...

Yes, This Orchid Looks Just Like a Monkey—And It’s Real originally appeared on Dengarden. Orchids are some of the most beautiful blooms of the plant world, known for their dazzling colors and ...

Ten years ago, my husband and I were traveling around South Africa for a few weeks and fell in love with the baboons. They were everywhere. Eating fruit in the middle of the road. Having sex on the ...

In adult humans and macaques, inferotemporal cortex (IT) is subdivided into functional domains that are selective for different image categories and are critical for high-level object recognition, but ...

Monkey see, monkey recognise. That’s what an experimental app is offering to do for conservationists seeking to identify and track primates in the wild. It could even help wildlife crime investigators ...

When neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging to see how a monkey’s brain responds to familiar faces, something odd happens. When shown a familiar face, a monkey’s brain lights up, ...

This week’s first small-telescope target is Sirius B, the companion to the night sky’s brightest star, Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. American telescope-maker Alvin Graham Clark discovered that Sirius was a ...