Almost by definition, species unknown to science are often tough to track down. But researchers seeking out a new species of primate in northern Myanmar were assured by locals that the monkeys aren't ...

The black snub-nosed monkey (also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey) is a medium-sized primate species named for its black fur and a distinctive upturned nose, which results from a lack of nasal ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A survey to find the critically endangered Tonkin-snub nosed monkey in Vietnam found no trace of it in one of two remaining forest patches it was ...

Some animals are so cute, we can’t believe they actually exist in real life. Case in point: the golden snub-nosed monkey, which looks like a cuddlier version of an Ewok — you know, those teddy ...

With their distinctive shaggy orange manes, pale blue faces and dense fur covering their hands and feet, it's hard to mistake China's endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys for any other animal. These ...

Until the 1980s people roamed the mountains of Shennongjia in central China hunting monkeys for their meat and fur. Poor farmers were still clearing vast areas of trees, and as their environment ...

Discovered in 2010 and promptly listed as Critically Endangered, the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey lives only in the remote high forests of Northeast Myanmar, and across the border in China’s Gaoligong ...

It might not hold for humans, but for Borneo’s endangered proboscis monkeys, it’s a way of life: (nose) size matters. Among the primates, the males that most resemble Cyrano de Bergerac have the best ...

In 11 th century China, the scholar Lu Dian wrote an encyclopedia of his country’s beasts, birds, insects, and trees. One of the species he described in the text was a monkey “with fluffy golden tail ...

You just have to wait for it to rain. The new species, a previously unknown type of snub-nosed monkey dubbed Rhinopithecus strykeri, has a nose so upturned that the animals sneeze audibly when it ...