For most of us, visiting the zoo as a child brings up happy memories of adventures, melting ice cream, and childhood friends.

The best zoos in the U.S. go beyond exhibits, continuously striving towards cutting-edge conservation to preserve endangered ...

The Bronx River Parkway officially opened a century ago this month. It was the first modern highway in the world: a ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we’ll see a familiar emblem everywhere — the bald eagle, wings outstretched, symbol of freedom and strength. But today on National ...

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo is welcoming a new resident. Charlie, a Komodo dragon, came to the zoo Sept. 20 from the Bronx Zoo in New York through the Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan to ...

ST. LOUIS — The Saint Louis Zoo's new Komodo dragon habitat opens this month at the Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium, and the habitat's first resident is 6-year-old Charlie. Charlie, who measures 6 feet ...

A zoo in Kansas is mourning a beloved member of their wildlife family after they became injured in an unknown incident. The Topeka Zoo said in a statement posted to Facebook on Sept. 24 that Leopold, ...

Sacramento Zoo seeks city approval to expand Land Park site by 40% to 20.1 acres. Expansion follows canceled $302M Elk Grove zoo plan due to construction costs. Mayor McCarty backs project, citing ...

It’s wait 'til next year for the Bronx giraffe in the Mets’ 5-Borough Mascot Race. The supremely unlucky giraffe, who represents the Bronx because that borough has a famous zoo, lost by a neck to the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Zoo announced the birth of an American bison calf, Rubilee (pronounced Ruby Lee), born during the zoo’s Zoobilee celebration. The zoo said that at just a few ...

Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage. Here are the Cincinnati Zoo’s most productive poopers. Giraffes: 300 pounds per day. America’s ...