The existence of the island has caused a social media frenzy, with users sharing jokes and memes relating to an escape ...

The monkeys are "believed to be in the wooded region surrounding the facility" and the police is assisting Alpha Genesis ...

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, and several are still ...

Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who more than a week ago broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, authorities said.

However, this is not the first time that the monkeys escaped the facility. In 2016, 19 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis and ...

There are 3,000 monkeys at that facility. It also manages another 3,000 monkeys for the National Institutes of Health on ...

There are 3,000 monkeys at that facility. It also manages another 3,000 monkeys for the National Institutes of Health on Morgan Island, which is located in Beaufort County off the coast 36 miles ...

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina, the ...

More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys who escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered as of Tuesday.

Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, police said.