A Houston man faces federal charges alleging he sold ring-tailed lemurs and Mexican spider monkeys and smuggled primates into the U.S.

Zoo welcomes four rescued spider monkeys after US border smuggling attempt. AZA, Species Survival Program aid primate welfare ...

Deep in the humid rainforests of India’s Western Ghats lives a creature that looks more like a colorful digital glitch than an actual living animal. Formally known as Cilantica devamatha (previously ...

Federal prosecutors say a Houston man has been indicted on charges that he turned endangered primates into a roughly $10,000 side gig, allegedly selling lemurs and spider monkeys across state lines ...

One of the biggest box office bombs focused on a Marvel character has ended a Spider-Man era for good, changing the franchise ...

A remarkable discovery has been made on the isolated island of St. Helena, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, where two new spider species have been identified, including one that is entirely ...

Kaleela Thompson is a former science writing intern at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and a master’s student at George Washington University studying Biological Sciences. She ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few Star Wars fans among biologists. These ones have used their opportunity to name a new species to make reference to their beloved franchise.

A rare “giant spider” appears in restored grasslands, a sign that the habitat has once again become ideal for predators today.

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...

Nearly 90 percent of insect and arachnid species in North America lack conservation status, leaving major gaps in biodiversity protection.

Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of the ecosystem, fungal pathogens from Asia nearly ...