Cradled inside the hushed world of the womb, fetuses might be preparing to come out howling. In the same way newborn humans can cry as soon as they’re born, common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus ...

Firefighters in Brazil were able to rescue a truly tiny victim from a forest fire in Pau Furado State Park, about six hundred miles northwest of Rio. In the video, one rescuer can be seen cradling a ...

Marmosets are small monkeys that live high up in the canopies of South American rainforests. There are more than 20 species, and most could fit comfortably in an adult human's hand. Marmosets have ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter - they help to build a baby's emerging language skills. But it turns out this ...

People keeping tropical animals as pets is a not-uncommon gag in movies and sitcoms, a signature of quirkiness for characters like Ace Ventura and Ross Geller. But in reality, there are social and ...

The marmosets and tamarins are the smallest of the higher primates. This makes their genome extremely valuable in studying the human species and others. They have for example, the best fathers in the ...

Common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus) have been described as having human-like conversations according to a team of researchers from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Native to Brazil, ...

A new study extracted and analyzed the DNA of the pygmy marmoset taken to Europe in the early nineteenth century by German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826), confirming its species.