BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The western lowland gorillas explored their new indoor habitat at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The ...

Deep in the jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the then-24-year-old student was hundreds of miles from her ...

Despite the enthusiasm for the strange dinosaur of the Congo, sightings of it became increasingly less common throughout the last century. However, this seems to be changing. According to National ...

I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

Dinosaur' of the Congo is being seen by more and more people, as per claims. However, the reason for it might boil down to ...

The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo isn’t just killing people — it’s tearing down forests, silencing activists ... home to the critically endangered eastern lowland and mountain gorillas ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

A weatherproof box and motion-trigger camera help photographer Will Burrard-Lucas capture images of rarely seen African ...

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020 ...

There are over 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the world, with estimates of around 1,063 and they currently live in the forests of the volcanic range which includes Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic ...

In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...

Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...