Key to Mizzou Botanic Garden and MU Arboretum’s mission is to feature an expansive selection of plants and trees that will thrive in mid-Missouri’s climate to “inspire, educate and delight visitors.” ...

The final monkey who escaped from a transport van that crashed Oct. 28 on a Mississippi highway has been safely recovered and will spend the rest of his days at a New Jersey animal sanctuary. The ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...

The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi roadway has been found and captured, authorities said Thursday. A resident who lives ...

Bryan Roth had been hiking and scrambling for a while, with drop-offs evident around him, when his guides held out coveralls and pointed between two rocks. “We have to go in the hole,” one said. Roth ...

SEATTLE — Geocaching celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The global game of hide and seek started in May 2000, when the U.S. government flipped a switch that made GPS signals far more accurate ...

Monkey Puzzle wood is beautiful — but these knobs made this turning project a real battle! Watch me take it all the way down, wrestle the tricky grain, and turn this wild chunk into a stunning final ...

A male monkey in Japan has been filmed trying to mate with a female deer—likely the first observation of two distantly related species having a nonviolent sexual encounter. Japanese macaques and sika ...

The Monkey Puzzle tree is not the most common choice for woodturning, but that’s what makes it interesting. In this project, I put a log of Monkey Puzzle on the lathe to see what I could create — and ...

Geocaching is an outdoor activity using GPS to find hidden containers (caches). Participants use a smartphone app to locate caches, often hidden in public places like parks. Once found, geocachers ...

A suspicious device discovered at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail station in Campbell on Tuesday prompted a series of evacuations, authorities said. At 1:48 p.m., the Santa Clara County ...

Blend in with its surroundings. Be properly labeled with cache name, contact information and log location. Have a letter inside explaining the nature of the contents. Be located in a spot that doesn’t ...