A tiny gecko had a big problem: squamous cell carcinoma. How the zoo's vets teamed up to save the creature and make history.

The primate was born April 15. Her name includes I, R and S. Not many creatures, humans or otherwise, make a big deal of ...

He may only weigh 3 ounces, but this little lizard just helped make veterinary history. Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s ...

Imagine stepping into a world where the boundaries between man and wild seem to fade, where the roar of a lion echoes across ...

WASHINGTON — Chemo for a gecko? Right-o. 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 ...

14 education and research centers and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. "Unfortunately, we now stand at the brink of seeing the Smithsonian at its worst: shaped solely by the views and ideology ...

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Zoo Last fall, contractors renovating ... and Barnum & Bailey Circus programs, a copy of the May 17, 1936, Washington Post and a crumbling pair of lists ...

It takes ten people to lift a sedated hulk named Mopie onto the operating table at the National Zoological Park hospital ... one of three Washington cardiologists who have given up this Sunday ...