Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Leah, the first gorilla ever seen using tools, has secured herself another small place in history by becoming the first gorilla captured on film mating face-to-face, ...

With close to a million species now threatened with extinction, it's not often you hear about a conservation success story. But as we first reported in November, the mountain gorillas of the East ...

Silverback gorillas are famous for their impressive, bulging physiques — and their rather modest genitalia. Now, scientists have uncovered a potential genetic link between these apes' small members ...