Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The brothers look for the origin of a sound, and it turns out to be a proboscis monkey! The Kratt brothers find a group of proboscis monkeys. The gang talks about their nose – their most notable ...

Learn more about these big-nosed monkeys. Find out why scientists think these primates have such outsized organs.

If Cyrano de Bergerac had been a proboscis monkey, he might not have needed poetry. For this furry primate, found only on the ...

Best known for its impressively sized honker of a nose and engorged beer-gut belly, proboscis monkeys are quite the sight for staring. However, both of these physiological characteristics serve very ...

Osaka, Japan – The prominent noses of male proboscis monkeys, long thought to be visual signals, play a crucial role in vocal communication, enhancing individual identity. A new study published in the ...

Researchers have found evidence of the origin behind the large, prominent nose of the proboscis monkey. Scientists looked into the size of the proboscis monkey's nose, along with other factors, to ...

Exaggerated male traits, such as a large nose, can be great for attracting females, finds a study of proboscis monkeys in Malaysia. Scientists from Cardiff University, the Danau Girang Field Centre, ...

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 ...

When it comes to attracting a mate, it seems size really does matter. A new study of proboscis monkeys in Malaysia, published in the journal Science Advances, has found that males with the biggest ...