Dian Fossey, a naturalist who chronicled her life among the gorillas of Rwanda in the book “Gorillas in the Mist,” was honored Thursday with a Google Doodle. Her work with what she called “the ...

Dian Fossey was a remarkable scientist who fought with passion to ensure the survival of the creatures that she loved. Her life was cut all too short, and so much the worse for us. Born in 1932 in San ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 27, 1985, American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied mountain gorillas in Africa for nearly 20 years, ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Dian Fossey spent 18 years in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda studying gorillas, becoming world-famous even before the arrival of 1988’s Oscar-nominated, Sigourney Weaver-starring ...

The Rwandans called her Nyiramachabelli — "the woman who lives alone on the mountain." Indeed, zoologist Dian Fossey, who would have turned 82 today, conducted her research without other humans nearby ...

Fossey was honored along with Bay Area literary figure Ina Donna Coolbrith. A poet, writer, librarian, and prominent figure in the literary community, Coolbrith was known as the “Sweet Singer of ...

It was from a small hut in Rwanda that researcher and conservationist Dian Fossey observed that while gorillas may sometimes act tough, they are really gentle giants. Fossey is one of the most famous ...

Ottaviani(Feynman) examines the lives and scientific work of the three great primatologists of the 1960s, as they intersect through mutual mentor Louis Leakey. The ...

Poppy, the last living gorilla featured in Dian Fossey’s 1983 book “Gorillas in the Mist,” is believed to have died, according to the famed naturalist’s nonprofit organization. The female ape, who ...

Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall are household names for their groundbreaking research on apes. They’re often mentioned together, given the similarities in their lives. Both women ultimately dominated ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers, corrupt ...

Jim Ottaviani appears to be making a career writing nonfiction comics, often scientific in nature. He made a sizable splash two years ago with his biography of Richard Feynman (generally well-reviewed ...