Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

The idea that humans evolved from modern monkeys is one of the most common misunderstandings about evolution. Humans and monkeys instead share a distant common ancestor, while humans are apes and ...

Researchers observed and confirmed with measurements that wild sooty mangabey monkeys in an Ivory Coast forest display foot bone flexibility that facilitates vertical climbing up skinny tree trunks to ...