“I was amazed that I was still alive,” Charla Nash said about the gruesome 2009 attack Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's ...

What began as a woman raising a baby chimpanzee like her own child eventually turned into one of the most horrifying animal ...

Charla Nash arrived at Sandy Herold’s house as she usually did. They’d been close friends for years. Little did she know this visit would change her life forever. As soon as Nash stepped inside, ...

A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the animal was dangerous but didn't ...

LONG BEACH, N.Y. (WABC) - A high school wrestler from New York just won a national championship and is heading to college on a scholarship, but that’s a far cry from how his life started thousands of ...

Sandy Herold died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, lawyer Robert Golger said. She was 72. Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, went berserk in February 2009 after Herold asked her friend, ...

For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...