The bonobo, a boy, was named after Don Winstel, who worked at the zoo for more than 36 years before retiring as the assistant director.

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, was once caged in a lab facility in New York. After being freed, she sees the sky for the first time in Florida.

This baby otter orphan was found alone in a river in Cecil County, Maryland. Taken in by the Maryland Zoo, she's now being ...

Michigan Hall of Justice, in Lansing. The building is home to the state Supreme Court. An animal rights group plans to take its case to the Michigan Supreme Court after lower courts denied requests to ...

Christina Burdette, 34, was pronounced dead by N.J. authorities responding to a residence about an unresponsive female over the weekend Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk.

Oct. 15 (UPI) --The first teaser for Primate, the story of a family, its pet chimpanzee, and a tropical vacation gone horribly wrong, arrived Wednesday ahead of an official trailer. The minute ...

An animal rights group is asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to order an unlawful imprisonment hearing for seven chimpanzees at a private zoo in the Upper Peninsula. A three-judge panel heard ...

Salty black water laden with contaminants erupted from an orphaned well in West Texas in February — the latest in a series of deserted oil and gas wells leaking toxic water in a threat to groundwater.

So what were Goodall's contributions to primatology? And did any fall short? Live Science spoke to chimpanzee experts to unpack her enduring impact on chimp research, including how some of her initial ...

The only thing better than adopting a new pet is when one of your animals adopts another. In this video, we're introduced to a orphaned baby duckling sitting by himself in the grass. It starts as a ...

Genesis Villella remembers being the loudest, proudest parent cheering as twins Peter and Delilah crossed the stage at their 2023 high school graduation. But looking around the stands, teeming with ...