Othello the Aldabra giant tortoise, who was well over 100 years old, died at the St. Louis Zoo on April 8. Screengrab from St ...

At these fun parks, your kids (and their parents) are encouraged to get up close and personal with the natives. Which petting ...

Potter Park Zoo announced Thursday that its bull, Emmett, had shed his rack. The Facebook post includes a photo of five ...

Sedgwick County firefighters are setting fires at the Sedgwick County Zoo on Monday, April 7. The firefighters will also set ...

Steve Lake envisions a zoo no more than 25 acres, with animals that could withstand the region’s extreme summer temperatures.

A 6-year-old, two-toed sloth unexpectedly went into labor in her zoo exhibit in front of zoo goers on Wednesday, April 2 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The Phoenix Zoo in April opened Big Cats of Arizona, a $5.4 million habitat paid in part with a grant from the Arizona Office ...

The Sacramento Zoo announced the new name of its baby giraffe, Sumi. Sumi was born on March 1. The name was inspired by her ...

As a new animal habitat sprung up at Phoenix Zoo, two California condors watched closely. Then they learned who was moving in ...

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The most popular attraction at the National Zoo are the giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, playful people-pleasers on loan ...

Staff members at the Nashville Zoo are mourning the loss of a clouded leopard cub, who died from intestinal bleeding Friday, just over a month after she was born.