Staff at Te Nukuau Wellington Zoo are mourning the death of Sundar, one of the zoo's popular red pandas and a familiar face ...

In 1826 Sir Stamford Raffles founded The Zoological Society London (ZSL) as the world's first scientific zoo for the study of living animals. Two years later it opened to Fellows of the Society plus ...

About the size of a half-dollar, the tiny painted river terrapin hatchling - a critically endangered species - at the ...

President Grover Cleveland officially signed an act of Congress into law creating the National Zoological Park in 1889 for ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) announced Jan. 6 that two sloth bear cubs were born ...

The zoo's partnership with Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission aims to create a conservation program similar to the zoo's ...

At Vienna’s Zoo, two giant panda bears bounded through snowy conditions that zookeepers said resembled their native climate in China's mountain forests.

A new independent poll of 1,000 San Francisco?area voters shows overwhelming public support for a major transformation of the city's zoo: 76% want the zoo site re-imagined, 57% oppose keeping animals ...

With its last giant pandas sent back to China, a Japanese zoo has turned to costumed keepers to keep visitors engaged and ...