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Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

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From movie and television stars to musicians and other notable personalities, we said goodbye to a lot of beloved faces this ...

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From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures ...

Pope Francis, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre and celebrities Gene Hackman and Rob ...

"Christmas came early for our gibbon family!" the Akron Zoo announced with a cute little video of this band of primates discovering their presents. The curious gibbons got a holiday surprise of not ...

FROM music legends like Ozzy to literary icons such as Jilly Cooper, 2025 saw the loss of many beloved celebrities. Here The ...