A remote South Carolina island that is home to as many as 3,500 research monkeys poses so many “potentially life-threatening situations” that caretakers must bar the public and prosecute trespassers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina, exists an island dedicated to monkeying around. Well, sort of. If you've been keeping up ...

Morgan Island, also known as "Monkey Island," is a 2,000-acre island off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina. The island is home to a colony of over 3,000 Rhesus monkeys used for scientific research ...

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort. In ...

Earlier this year, researchers on a federally funded study of alcohol abuse faced a dilemma. What do you do with two old, drunken monkeys? Hoo Hoo and Duff, both 18, had given years of service to Wake ...

Morgan Island sits just several miles off the coast of South Carolina. From the water, it looks pretty nondescript. It has the same unassuming appearance as many of the marshlike sea islands that dot ...

On the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina, exists an island dedicated to monkeying around. Well, sort of. If you've been keeping up with the 43 primates that recently escaped a scientific search ...