Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

Deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, far from roads and modern comforts, I spent 72 hours completely immersed in the jungle. This was well outside my comfort zone, both physically and mentally.

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

A gorilla at Congo Falls, the new two-acre habitat at the San Antonio Zoo. The seven recently-arrived gorillas didn't go ...

From the vast Amazon Rainforest and the wild Congo Rainforest to Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest, the misty Tongass ...

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR SAN ANTONIO ZOO - Guests attend the grand opening of Congo Falls, America's new landmark gorilla ...

As we near Christmas, and our brilliant Mirror charity appeal for Lifelites continues, we meet 13-year-old Mikey. His medical ...

Since opening on December 13, Congo Falls has nearly doubled the San Antonio Zoo's visitor budget to over 30,000, a feat even more impressive considering San Antonio has seen less than ideal weather.

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

This year, a lot of us traveled for what we love: poets and gorillas, fiancés and husbands, children and parents, and ...

The gorilla is gargantuan. There’s a promise of raw power in its chest, supreme agility in arms that ripple with muscle, and wisdom in its dark, deep-set eyes. It looms larger than the trees, taller ...