Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By now, most of you have seen little Punch, a 7-month-old macaque who stole the hearts of animal lovers around the world. But ...

In a letter sent Monday to Massachusetts lawmakers, actor Casey Affleck is urging a bill that would prohibit the separation of baby monkeys from their mothers for laboratory experiments, a practice ...

Until five years ago, members of the General Assembly were unaware of a dog factory farm that had operated in Cumberland County since the 1960s. When PETA’s undercover investigation exposed the ...

As Congress deliberates the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) budget bill for next year, every single member will receive a video message starring Bob Barker — but it’s no The Price Is Right ...

The bill was presented by Senators Joan Lovely with Mike Moore and Mike Brady and would prohibit the removal of infant primates from their mothers for the first year of their lives. By Chris Gardner ...

Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing baby monkeys as he sought to contain a brewing scandal and kept ...

After years of fighting over the use of animals for research, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have settled a 2022 public records lawsuit.

I’m a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, so I know there are ways to prevent the recent incident in Mississippi where eight monkeys escaped during transport from a research lab in New ...

Three individuals, including a Republican, Democrat, and actress, are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suspend the practice of importing monkeys for ...