Staff at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the District are mourning the death of a male gray seal, Gunther, at the age of 33, ...

Once abundant on Socorro Island, part of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Socorro dove was last seen in the wild over ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo has lost one of its beloved gray seals. Gunther, a 33-year-old gray seal who had been with the Zoo since 2012, died Jan. 18. In a release, the Zoo said the average life ...

Brandie Smith is the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. In an episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations," ...

The San Francisco Zoo’s only male gorilla, a 43-year-old silverback named Oscar Jonesy, died unexpectedly following a medical procedure on Thursday. The western lowland gorilla died while recovering ...

A 56-year-old rhinoceros, the oldest in the U.S., has died in Tennessee after exceeding the median life expectancy for her ...

An endangered baby animal that looks like a fuzzy “walking watermelon” was born at a Washington zoo. The white striped and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The oldest rhinoceros in the United States has died at a Tennessee zoo. Dolly was 56 years old.

The Oregon Zoo in Portland has welcomed its newest addition, a baby elephant.

Trust us when we say that your wildest Valentine’s date awaits at the National Zoo and Aquarium thanks to their special event, Woo at the Zoo.

A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the ...

Misha, a tiger at Blank Park Zoo, has made her Super Bowl pick. Two boxes, filled with the 13-year-old Amur tiger's favorite ...