Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.

Outside the Field Museum in Chicago, a bronze sculpture by artist Marla Friedman captures a moment a friendship was made. It's called "The Red Palm Nut." A young woman sits barefoot on the ground, ...

During a lab visit in 1990, Jane Goodall disregarded the caution of some workers there to get close to an alpha chimpanzee and communicate with it Goodall's groundbreaking years observing chimps ...

Legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall has died, the conservation organization she founded announced on Oct. 1.

I remember little from my early years in central London, though the city still feels like an echo of home. I was 4 years old when we left, and my childhood memories exist mostly as fragments: my ...

When a PEOPLE writer spent a memorable day with Goodall for a profile, he witnessed two scenes with two very different animals During a lab visit in 1990, Jane Goodall disregarded the caution of some ...