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Juan Olvido Perea García is taking a closer look at human eyes and asking whether the “whites” of our eyes vary in response to the sun, like our skin does.

Sir David Attenborough has mastered the craft of storytelling, inspiring generations of people to love and care for the natural world. Now, he’s celebrating his 100th birthday and a lifetime of wildlife filmmaking.

New research helps explain how by the end of the Ice Age, dogs were already deeply woven into human life, forging deep bonds that continue to this day.

What does Jane Goodall’s early scientific career look like on paper? Grant reports typed by candlelight. Thank-you notes for $10 donations. Balancing fieldwork with motherhood. Volunteer Alex Wilkins processed The Leakey Foundation’s Jane Goodall archive and came away with a different kind of reverence for her scientific hero.

Biruté Galdikas did not simply study orangutans; she dedicated her life to revealing their behavior and ecology, protecting their future, and ensuring they would never again be forgotten.

Eva Stela Nomenjanahary grew up in Madagascar, one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth. Now a PhD student, she’s recording rare nocturnal lemur calls to understand how they change as habitat becomes fragmented.

Sims Patton didn’t set out to become a primatologist. She started college aiming for veterinary school, but an internship at Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens, where she worked with a gorilla who had been raised as a pet, changed her direction entirely.

Follow Leakey Foundation grantees Sims Patton and Abigail McClain through a day in the field as they study chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

A new study of a pair of 13-million-year-old fossil jaws sheds new light on how howler monkeys became one of South America’s most successful primates.

Alexandra Kralick’s research connects skeletal biology with behavior, helping us understand sex-linked variation in primates.