The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reportedly investigating 18 primate deaths at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center — the same South Carolina facility that saw than 40 monkeys ...

Six monkeys were still on the loose early Monday after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, according to authorities.

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry ...

PETA, which opposes the use of animals for research, said the monkeys could have been given to caretakers or sanctuaries. “Experiments on animals fail to produce cures and treatments for humans ...

SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in ...

SAN DIEGO — A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States from Mexico. 33-year-old Sarmad ...