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The "Dueling Dinosaurs" exhibit opening this weekend at Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will feature what's believed to be the most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered.

'Dueling Dinosaurs:' One-of-a-kind dig, laboratory access at Raleigh science museum

DinoLab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Athens Drive Magnet High School and Conn Magnet Elementary School won national awards Saturday at the Magnet Schools of America's annual conference.

Top two magnet schools in the US are in Wake County

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The Tar Heel Traveler tells a funny, almost unbelievable racing story from right here Raleigh. In the early days of NASCAR, a little monkey named Jocko, teamed with Tim Flock. Jocko Flocko drove the other drivers bananas.

ON JOCKO FLACCO. >> A NUMBER 91 HUDSON HORNET HIM FLOCK IS ONE OF THE BEST RATES ARE CERTAINLY OF THE DAY. THOSE GLORY DAYS OF RACING. YOU KNOW, THE OLD DAYS. >> ROCKINGHAM AND IT WAS NORTH WILKESBORO AND IT WAS HICKORY. THERE'S ALSO RALEIGH, TIM FLOCK WON THE NASCAR SERIES IN 1950, TO HIS PROMOTER CAME UP WITH A LITTLE GIMMICK. A LITTLE MONKEY NAMED JOCKO TEAMED WITH TIM FLOCK. >> FLOCK OF TRUCKER HAD A LITTLE RACE, CAR OUTFIT AND LITTLE TOO HEADGEAR AND RACED WITH TIM FLOCK. THEY WANT TO RAISE TOGETHER IN HICKORY IN PART BECAUSE JOCKO DROVE THE OTHER DRIVERS BANANAS. YOU KNOW, I'D BE DISTRACTED DRIVING UP AND DOWN. I-40 RIGHT NOW IF I SAW A MONKEY DRIVING BESIDE BUT IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE IN A RACE CARD, PROBABLY EVEN MORE. SO DID BEGIN TO WORK. NO WALLY, JUST 2 WEEKS LATER FLOCK WAS LEADING THIS RACE, WHICH WAS IMPORTANT TO HIM IN THE STANDINGS AND AND WAS DOING WELL. JOCKO FLOCKA. >> I GOT OUT OF HIS LITTLE HARNESS AND WAS WONDERING AROUND THE RACE CAR. TIM WAS FORCED TO PULL INTO THE PITS AND INSTEAD OF WINNING THE RACE, HE WOUND UP 3RD. YOU KNOW, THAT WAS HIS LAST RACE. JOCKO FLOCK OWES LAST TREES, BUT IT WAS RALEIGH. IT WAS WHAT'S BENEATH WAKE TECH RIGHT NOW. WAKE TECH'S BELTLINE EDUCATION CENTER SITS ON THE SITE OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE RALEIGH SPEEDWAY. YOU CAN STILL FIND IN THE WOODS >> THE SPEEDWAY HERE AND REMINDERS OF HE, YOU KNOW, WE TELL THE STORY A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE'RE ALL SO WE'RE BIG PART OF AUTOMOTIVE. >> WE TRAIN NOW 300 AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS A YEAR YOUR YOU KNOW, DOCTOR FLOCK IS A BIG PART OF THE STORY, BUT TIM FLOCK, EVEN THOUGH HE FACED PERSONAL CHALLENGES IN THAT RACE, HE FINISHED THE RACE AND THAT'S WHAT WE LOOK FOR OUR STUDENTS TO DO AS WELL I THINK, OVERCOME CHALLENGES. THEY FINISHED THE RACE JOCKO BAGS AND THE WORLD'S FASTEST MONKEY. THIS STORY. BUT IT'S ALSO FOX STORY IN THE WAKE TECH STORY AND THE WAKE TECH KIND OF HISTORY AROUND HERE. THE MONKEY WENT ON TO MONKEY HAVING A SHORT TIME AFTER HIS LAST RACE. >> AND PERHAPS YOU CONTINUE TO INSPIRE HIS RACING PARTNER BECAUSE TIM FLOCK WON THE SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN IN  >> AND TODAY IS LISTED AS ONE

Tar Heel Traveler: Monkey on NASCAR team drove other drivers bananas

Jocko Flocko and Tim Flocko

A woman who had direct contact with at least one of the monkeys that escaped after the trailer hauling them was involved in a wreck Friday night is being treated for possible health issues stemming from that contact. 

And I looked down in more into Michelle Fallon of Danville says she just received her first dose of rabies vaccine and a round of antivirals after a monkey hissed in her face at the scene of a crash in Valley Township. I thought I was just doing the right thing by helping. I had no idea would turn out this way. Fallon says, on Friday, she saw a truck hauling a trailer collided with a dump truck where route 54 meets interstate 80. She pulled over to help the driver. He just asked if his trailer was okay. He never said that, don't go. If you do come here a crate, do not touch it. If you would have told me that then I would have been more careful. That's when Fallon came face to face with an agitated monkey. The truck was hauling 100 monkeys from Africa headed to a lab in Missouri for testing the three monkeys that escaped have since been recovered, but during the search officials warned the public not to come near the monkeys because they could transmit disease. I was close to the monkey, I touched the craze. I walked through their feces. So I was very close. I was inside that trailer where the monkey. So I called to inquire, you know, was I safe since the monkeys were not quarantined and monitored. The CDC told Fallon she needs to take precautions because she was in close contact according to the CDC. This species commonly spreads the B virus through saliva feces or urine. Fallon says she grew concerned because she has an open cut on her hand and developed pink. I like symptoms. So she went to the emergency room at Geisinger Danville because the monkey did hiss at me, and because there was monkey feces around and I do have an open cut, they just want to be precautious.

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The cynomolgus monkeys, which are often used in scientific research and can cost up to $10,000 each, had been on their way to a lab in Florida when the crash happened about 3:20 p.m. on Route 54 near Interstate 80 in Montour County, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia, state police said.

Monkeys -- on way to work in scientific research -- escape when truck crashes on Pa. highway

New Orleans' Audubon Zoo is preparing for a very rare event -- the birth of Sumatran orangutan twins, which happens in less than 1 percent of this critically endangered population.

When we found out we were having twins, we were ecstatic, our family just continues to grow.

Rare: Orangutan mom-to-be expecting twins 

Orangutan at New Orleans zoo expecting twins 

A monkey was caught this week on the premises of Haneda Airport in Tokyo. 

Yeah, Some of these people. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Mhm. Uh huh. Okay. Uh huh. Thank you. You saw the Tokyo there started there. Mhm. Yeah. First of all it started going up depends on what they must Data. Yeah, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Oh wow. Hell no, no, no. I told them up there today the goal of all provinces. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.

Escape artist: Monkey captured at airport in Tokyo 

Monkey captured at Tokyo airport

People living near the zoo aren't sure if the monkeys escaped or were released by zoo keepers who couldn't afford to carry on feeding them. 

Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Mm. Oh, okay. March. We are better and say, you know, wasn't there Miramar, remember? How happy, Joe? Uh huh. Mhm. Mhm.

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An Indonesian rehabilitation center released ten orangutans into the wild.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. What's that? You know that A I have to get some help.

Rehabilitated orangutans released into the wild 

A baby Francois' Leaf Monkey was born at the Philadelphia Zoo. 

>> THIS IS WHAT'S TRENDING REPORT SPONSORED BY RUG AND HOME. >> IT DOES OF SWEETNESS FOR YOUR STAY WITH A LOOK AT THE CUTEST NEWBORN BABY. >> THIS IS A FRIENDS WHILE LEAVE MONDAY AND THEY ARE NATIVE TO CHINA AND VIETNAM AND GO TO ABOUT TWO FEET AND 16 POUNDS. THIS LITTLE GIRL WAS BORN AT THE PHILADELPHIA ZOO AND AT FIRST HER MOTHER WASN'T PAYING MUCH ATTENTION TO HER WHICH IS COMMON FOR FIRST-TIME MOTHERS AND SOME SPECIES. THEY TOOK CARE OF THE BABY UNTIL THE MOTHER WAS READY. HER NAME MEANS PRECIOUS IN

Adorable: Endangered monkey born at Philadelphia Zoo 

A pair of baby marmosets made their adorable public debut.

Twins! Baby marmosets snuggle and play at British zoo 

Marmoset twins

A Malaysian man found his lost cellphone and discovered someone had taken video and photos with it. 

BEING PRERECORDED INSTEAD OF PRODUCED LIVE AS IT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST. >>> AND THE MAN FOUND HIS CELL PHONE, DISCOVERING SOMEONE HAD TAKEN VIDEOS AND PHOTOS WITH IT, SHARING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THE MONKEY STARING AT THE CAMERA BEFORE TRYING TO PUT IT ON THEIR MOUTHS. AND THERE WERE ALSO PHOTOS APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY THE MONKEY. THEY FOUND THE VIDEO AND THE PICTURES ON HIS PHONE AFTER LOSING IT IN THE BACKYARD. >>> WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE ANIMAL WILL GET THE PHONE IN THE POSITION TO TAKE A PICTURE. SO WE WILL TRY TO FIND THAT OUT

Monkey steals man's phone, takes selfies, video with it

Jenny Tung, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, has been named a MacArthur Fellow for her genetic research in primates, the foundation announced Wednesday.



Duke researcher wins 'genius award,' MacArthur Fellowship

Jenny Tung

We tracked down the 10 stories that garnered the most views this week. 

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A South Carolina woman continues her search for her missing pet monkey.

Search for missing monkey continues

A South Carolina woman is continuing her desperate search to find her monkey, who went missing in Morrisville after the pet was spooked by the noise of a passing plane flying overhead.

SC woman seeks help in search for monkey that went missing in the Triangle

Willow the missing monkey

A South Carolina woman is pleading for help finding her pet monkey, who went missing in Morrisville.

SC woman offers $1K reward for return of pet monkey missing in Morrisville 

An Indian man befriended hundreds of wild monkeys by feeding them every week. He now calls the monkeys his family. 

Man befriends hundreds of monkeys

A woman left her pet monkey in her vehicle but the animal was able to escape before attacking some employees at a Home Depot.

Monkey attacks Florida Home Depot worker

Caretakers at Project Chimps in Georgia set up a ball pit for the chimpanzees to play in.

Playful chimps get into ball pit

Chimps play in ball pit

Caretakers at Project Chimp in Georgia set up a ball pit for chimpanzees to play in. 

Monkey Coverage

Tar Heel Traveler: Monkey on NASCAR team drove other drivers bananas

Those who came into contact with escaped monkeys experiencing health issues

Monkeys -- on way to work in scientific research -- escape when truck crashes on Pa. highway

Rare: Orangutan mom-to-be expecting twins

Escape artist: Monkey captured at airport in Tokyo

Monkeys escape from zoo to search for food

Rehabilitated orangutans released into the wild

Adorable: Endangered monkey born at Philadelphia Zoo

Twins! Baby marmosets snuggle and play at British zoo

Monkey steals man's phone, takes selfies, video with it

Duke researcher wins 'genius award,' MacArthur Fellowship

GoFundMe scams, McDonald's assault: Top 10 stories this week

Search for missing monkey continues

SC woman seeks help in search for monkey that went missing in the Triangle

Search for missing monkey continues

SC woman offers $1K reward for return of pet monkey missing in Morrisville

Man befriends hundreds of monkeys

Monkey attacks Florida Home Depot worker

Monkey attacks Florida Home Depot worker

Playful chimps get into ball pit

Rescued chimps have a ball at sanctuary