It was meant to be just another shipment, a truck rumbling down Interstate 59 with lab monkeys headed to a future full of medical tests, needles and white coats. But fate had other ideas. A sudden ...

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," ...

A number of monkeys were "destroyed" after escaping a truck crash as Mississippi law enforcement officers were mistakenly told they were dangerous. NBC News' Kathy Park reports that authorities are ...

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 car wreck on Interstate 59 in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon gave a handful of lab monkeys their first taste of freedom. But after a multi-agency response and confusion over whether the animals ...

Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement. All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monkeys that escaped from an overturned transport were thought to have COVID-19, hepatitis C and herpes. As of ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) – A truck hauling 21 monkeys to a testing facility in Florida overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday. According to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, the accident occurred ...