Retired lab chimpanzees housed in a New Mexico facility are headed for greener pastures in an animal sanctuary in Louisiana next spring, the National Institutes of Health said. The primates are being ...

Animal lovers and politicians are up in arms that the National Institute of Health is refusing to keep its paws off 28 lab chimps that are no longer being used for research — even though the law ...

The youngest chimpanzees are the biggest risk-takers. Would humans show the same pattern if adults weren’t keeping such a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story May 3 about chimpanzees, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from the organization Project Chimps, that a university laboratory in Louisiana ...

The National Institutes of Health should retire most of its chimps that are currently living in research facilities, according to a working group put together by the NIH to look at the future need for ...

The National Institutes of Health says it has no plans to move 26 former lab chimpanzees to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana, even though a federal judge ruled in 2022 that the agency was violating ...

Lea Michele has spoken out against experiments currently being run on 14 chimpanzees at a laboratory in San Antonio, Texas. The Glee actress joined with the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chimpanzees who have spent their lives in U.S. research labs being prodded, poked and tested may be headed for retirement in a leafy sanctuary where they can climb trees, socialize ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. sanctuary for retired federal research chimpanzees is about to nearly double its population when it receives 113 new primates from a Louisiana lab that no longer has a ...

Major League Baseball has officially added the stats of Negro League players to its records. One of the players is Norman "Turkey" Stearnes. His granddaughter Vanessa Ivy Rose explains what it means ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal ...