A crash on a highway in Mississippi gave a group of lab monkeys a taste of freedom, police said, before a mix-up over whether the primates had infectious diseases led to some of them being killed. The ...

The image of a lab monkey on the run after a highway crash is powerful enough to stick in the public imagination, even when the full story behind it is Unverified based on available sources. What is ...

A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals overturning on a Mississippi highway. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, ...

Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily ...

Real life might have just created the perfect opening to a horror movie. Mississippi police reported Tuesday that a highway car wreck allowed a truckful of “aggressive” rhesus monkeys to escape.

A truck hauling lab monkeys from Tulane University crashed in eastern Mississippi on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and several of the animals fled the vehicle. All but one of the escaped monkeys were "destroyed," ...

HEIDELBERG, Mississippi — A cargo truck carrying several lab-bred rhesus monkeys overturned Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 59 near Heidelberg in Jasper County, the releasing the primates into the ...

The second of three lab monkeys that escaped a crash on Interstate 59 in Mississippi last week was shot and killed Monday evening, Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson confirmed Tuesday afternoon. One ...