A full-grown male gorilla can weigh over 400 pounds — and most of it is muscle. But the size isn’t the real story. Gorilla muscle fibers are denser than a human’s and attach to thicker bones with far ...

The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up as guardians of their survival, shaping a conservation story that begins ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

The mirror test has fascinated scientists for decades due to its simplicity and revealing nature. First introduced in 1970 by ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is home to several Western Lowland gorillas, including 3-year-old Bruno and his little sister, Jameel, who ...

Watching his performance was hilarious, and all my efforts that morning were focused on him,' photographer Mark Meth-Cohn said.

When bedtime meets playtime with a stubborn little gorilla.

When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was hurtling towards extinction. She was one of the Trimates, a trio of female primatologists that included Jane ...

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

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.