With just over 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, any evidence of reproduction is cause for celebration. But the news out of the Democratic Republic of Congo this week is doubly exciting—a ...

Fifty-five years ago, Dian Fossey first appeared on the cover of National Geographic, bringing newfound awareness to the mountain gorillas who call the Virunga Massif their home. The 1970 issue with ...

This gorilla is 50 years old and still nursing orphans. Why? This gorilla is 50 years old and still nursing orphans. Why? Several gorillas test positive for COVID-19 at California zoo—first in the ...

Last July, Brent Stirton took a photograph that shocked the world when it was published in Newsweek — a picture of a dead 500-pound male gorilla named Senkwekwe, one of six endangered mountain ...