A piano played by jazz legend Duke Ellington during a show in Eastbourne is being restored. Ellington, who led and composed music for his band across six decades, performed at the Congress Theatre in ...

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded by her father Henry Fonda in the late 1940s, in order to protect free speech from government censorship. This comes ...

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram Wednesday that the renowned ...

Jane Goodall spent her life championing chimpanzees and working to prevent their extinction, while also supporting conservation efforts on every continent and advocating for the world’s poor. In 1960, ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.

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 ...

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” via Jane Goodall InstituteCredit ...

Jane Goodall, the late-trailblazing primatologist and global conservation icon, has repeatedly said she was inspired by the book Tarzan of the Apes series growing up, influencing her profound career.

5:45 p.m. Oct. 2, 2025: An earlier version of this story stated the chimpanzees are “humankind’s closest living ancestors.” They are humans’ closest living relatives, but not our ancestors. Jane ...

Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, has died at the age of 91. Having dedicated her life to the study of chimpanzees and to protecting endangered species, her conservation ...