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

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

The search for 42 monkeys is still underway after more than 40 monkeys escaped a South Carolina lab earlier this week.

The escape, which occurred on November 6, saw 43 monkeys flee their enclosure after it was left improperly secured by an employee, according to the Yemassee Police Department. To date, 37 monkeys have ...

Four monkeys are still on the loose nearly two weeks after breaking free from a South Carolina research facility.

Monkey mayhem continues as 18 primates remain on the loose from a research facility in South Carolina. On Wednesday, 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research ...

More than 40 monkeys escaped from a South Carolina research facility ... The rhesus monkeys launched their great escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center on Wednesday at around ...

On Wednesday, police began a search for 40-plus monkies who reportedly escaped a South Carolina research facility, and we can ...

told NBC affiliate WSAV-TV in South Carolina on Nov. 7 that an employee of the research center left a door open while cleaning the monkeys’ enclosure, which allowed the monkeys to escape.

Rhesus macaques are used for medical research because they are so like us. Perhaps that’s a compelling reason to leave them ...

Editor's Note: One monkey ... in South Carolina were located, but officials were working to recapture them Thursday afternoon ...