“Lynx are perfectly able to live outside in the wild in Scotland, but these individuals are used to heated, warm environments and food being prepared, and humans. “They are totally unsuitable for ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo will welcome the public to meet its newest giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, starting Jan. 24 ...

Munching carrots and climbing trees, the National Zoo’s new giant pandas prepare for their public debut this month.

On Jan. 24, giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] will make their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National ...

Dudley Zoo is celebrating its most popular animal, Ember, and her best mate Carko, who will hopefully bring a batch of cubs ...

Keepers at Dudley Zoo have been feeding their animals warm food and drink during the cold weather.

January is a big month for historic events in DC, but the debut of two new pandas at the National Zoo is perhaps the biggest highlight for Washingtonians. Bears Bao Li and Qing Bao will finally meet ...

Until now, contraception has been the method of choice for zoos to avoid surplus animals. Researchers are now calling for a paradigm shift: zoos could preserve their breeding populations, raise ...

In the centenary of naturalist Gerald Durrell’s birth, a new memoir adds rich new layers to what we know about the man ...

A pair of captive-bred white lioness sisters will spend their final years in a Kent sanctuary after being shipped 60 miles ...

Several inches of snowfall kept the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute closed to visitors this week. But the animals and their caretakers still had a good time!

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the ...