It has to be one of the most terrifying fabled creatures in British history. The dreaded Shug Monkey, about eight feet tall, is a huge hybrid monster said to haunt the rural lanes of Cambridgeshire.

A Polk County kindergarten teacher received a written reprimand for singing a version of "Happy Birthday" with monkey-related lyrics to a Black student. The school district found the teacher violated ...

An update from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the source of global extinction risk statuses for animal, fungal, and plant species, has labeled most of these flowers as under ...

Earlier this year, researchers on a federally funded study of alcohol abuse faced a dilemma. What do you do with two old, drunken monkeys? Hoo Hoo and Duff, both 18, had given years of service to Wake ...

Sitting at 14 inches tall and made up of more than 1,400 Lego pieces is a custom sock monkey creation that 20-year-old Nathan Lilliebridge of Lake in the Hills hopes to make into an official set sold ...

Woodchips are the bane of Bodhi Bhattarai’s existence. They get stuck in the wheels of his motorized wheelchair and prevent him from moving freely over surfaces. Now at White Park, he doesn’t have to ...

Branching plots and dark humor animate “Eye of the Monkey,” set in an unnamed dystopian country. By Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai is the author, most recently, of “I Have Some Questions for You,” and ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online ...

A pet spider monkey broke free of its owner at a beloved fall festival and was running amok in its small South Carolina town until local leaders saved the day with a cup of joe. The teeny primate ...

The Eutaw Village Festival posted a picture of the spider monkey on Saturday, saying the animal, named Ava, slipped away wearing a collar and a leash. According to The Post and Courier, Ava roamed ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --A South Carolina town clerk teamed up with the local mayor -- and a hot cup of coffee -- to capture a spider monkey spotted running loose through town. Casey Hill, town clerk in ...

EUTAWVILLE — Most monkeys like bananas. Ava prefers a hot cup of coffee. The pet spider monkey escaped her owner and roamed free in Orangeburg County for a day last week before being captured by a ...