Just like their gorilla cousins, these eastern lowland giants are big fans of fruits and greens. But here’s the twist: back in the mid-90s, there were around 17,000 of these magnificent creatures.

Gorillas in the wild live in the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. They belong to the family Hominidae, also referred to as the great apes. They belong to two species, Western and Eastern, that ...

An international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of seven mountain gorillas and six eastern lowland gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri), another eastern gorilla subspecies, comparing them to ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the change to the official status of the Eastern Gorilla - the Grauer's is a subspecies along with the even less numerous mountain ...

They belong to two species, Western and Eastern, that are split into two subspecies. These are the Western lowland and Cross River gorillas and the Eastern lowland and Mountain gorillas ...