Originally published in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic. In remote African highlands, a daring American woman ...

Originally published in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic. Dian Fossey reports from the field on the death of ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. "It is with heartfelt ...

In the impossibly abundant rainforests of central Africa, one of the world’s great travel experiences awaits. Mountain gorillas live in only three countries—Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...

Two sets of twins born just three months apart in one of the world’s most protected gorilla habitats have stunned conservationists and offered a hopeful sign for a species that remains endangered. The ...

In a rare occurrence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict. "The ...

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With close to a million species now threatened with extinction, it's not often you hear about a conservation success story. But the mountain gorillas of the East African nation of Rwanda are just that ...

The degree of distortion in facial features is on the rise in certain endangered gorilla species, possibly due to inbreeding. Facial asymmetry in primates – including humans – is marked by a sort of ...