The zoo said the program fights wildlife trafficking while providing urgent care for animals seized at U.S. ports.

The rat is about 9-16 centimeters long and has spiny hairs among its brown and black fur. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Zoos are responsible for more than keeping enclosures clean and animals well-fed. Tending to their residents’ mental health is just as important. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo took a creative ...

The three baby wolves were born this winter at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s conservation and research campus in Front Royal ...

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

Swinging onto a banner with a spinoff of Taylor Swift lyrics, this Memphis Zoo ape is feeling 22. See the adorable ...

Thursday is international Polar Bear Day and News 8 got to head over to the Seneca Park Zoo to see our Arctic friends!

(Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) The Smithsonian National Zoo has lost one of its beloved gray seals. Gunther, a 33-year-old gray seal who had been ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging ...

The Delhi government's forest department is probing allegations of tree uprooting at the city zoo. Although zoo director ...

River otters are famous for their buoyant spirit; that's why they often socialize in groups, according to the Smithsonian's ...

Zoo Atlanta has filed plans to renovate its giant panda habitat “in hopeful anticipation” of bringing the endearing bears ...