With their round eyes, plush fur and tiny hands, pygmy slow lorises look like they were designed to be cradled. Yet this baby ...

The slow loris is the only known primate that is venomous, placing it in an elite club of venomous mammals alongside the platypus, certain shrews, the European mole, and a handful of others. The slow ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — They sleep during the day and forage at night. They can’t jump, but they’re excellent climbers. They have huge round eyes. And — unique among primates — they have a venomous bite. Meet ...

The slow loris may look cute but it has a deadly bite! Museum scientist Zach Williams explains the strange way this unsuspecting primate produces its venom mixing oil from its armpits with saliva ...

A monkey that comes out at night and has a bite so poisonous it could kill a human has been discovered by scientists. The new species, which is a type of slow loris, releases poison from glands at its ...

This little guy is so cute isn’t he? He’s a newly discovered slow loris—a kind of primate related to lemurs—and you can’t help but want to give him a cuddle. Don’t piss him off though, because he has ...