Meet Retro, a cloned rhesus monkey born on July 16, 2020. He is now more than 3 years old and is “doing well and growing strong,” according to Falong Lu, one of the authors of a study ...

Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep. Primates have ...

“The cloned rhesus monkey has reached the age of 3,” says team member Falong Lu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. “So far, we haven’t observed any health issues in it by our r ...

PETA asked the NIMH in August to “provide real-time audiovisual communications from the rhesus macaques,” but the agency declined, saying its closed-circuit monitoring of the monkeys “is not ...

This week, a research team in China reported that it had successfully cloned a rhesus monkey, which has lived normally for over two years and reached maturity. It marks the first time that a rhesus ...

Although no people were living there, it was inhabited by hundreds of rhesus macaques. These monkeys had roamed the island since 1938, when an American primatologist brought their ancestors from ...

Adult male Rhesus Macaques measure approximately 53 centimeters on average and weigh an average of 7.7 kilograms. Females are smaller, averaging 47 centimeters in length and 5.3 kilograms in weight.

All the recovered primates are in good health, police said. Nearly all of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered. As of Monday evening, 39 of the 43 ...

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November. By Hank Sanders Nearly three months after 43 ...