African lions Hondo, Hatari, and Azizi are enjoying their cool new "bachelor pad" at Zoo Atlanta, now that the zoo has ...

Screenshot of the Birmingham Zoo's post on Instagram One of three orphaned mountain lion siblings that were rescued in ...

National Zoo Lovers Day, celebrated every April 8th, gives us a chance to celebrate the animals (and the people) that make zoos so special. Zoos offer more than just educational programs and ...

Humans have used geckos in the pursuit of skin cancer treatments. So it seems fitting that when a gecko at the National Zoo was spotted with tumors, humans went all in to save the little fella.

The newly upgraded lion complex at Zoo Atlanta is now open. The six-month, $3 million project introduces new features ...

An Alabama zoo took in its second orphaned mountain lion cub in four months after it was rescued by the California Oakland ...

Back in November, John Ball Zoo announced Kiume the lion would be leaving for a new facility, after living in Grand Rapids since 2012. His mate, Abena, had died in April. Later that month he was ...

Smithsonian/Roshan Patel It started, as many cancers do, with a lump. Keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center spotted it during a routine checkup—a small ...

the National Zoo. The orangutan’s name is Iris. Yes, Iris for I-R-S. She “was born here on April 15, 1987,” the zoo said on social media. That fact was followed by an exclamation point ...