Legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall has died, the conservation organization she founded announced on Oct. 1. Goodall, 91, died due to natural causes while she was in California on a ...

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades of research into the ...

Jane Goodall welcomed her only child with ex-husband Baron Hugo van Lawick in 1967 Getty Jane Goodall was a mother to her son, Hugo "Grub" Eric Louis van Lawick The groundbreaking researcher welcomed ...

Her research on chimpanzees changed the understanding of our closest relative. Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

LOS ANGELES -- She lived as the last ruler of ancient Egypt, but little is known about Cleopatra's death. For 2000 years, the location of her tomb has been a mystery with few leads, until now.

Proponents say the road would connect a remote town with an airport used for medical evacuations. Opponents say it would cause irreparable harm to wildlife and Alaska Native tribes. By Maxine Joselow ...

Pioneered close study of chimpanzees in the wild Trailblazing scientist's work featured in National Geographic Established institute for global environmental study Fulfilled childhood dream of living ...

Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal ...

Denali National Park and Preserve opened the Denali Park Road to private vehicle traffic last week, a policy that will remain in place until the middle of next month. The road is scheduled to remain ...