At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Little Critters: Nature Play area, young children and their caregivers can have fun with free, nature-based play activities Mike Bock At 10 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday, ...

A trip to the zoo is always a great way to spend the day with the kiddos, and the new nature-based play area at Lincoln Park Zoo is sure to make your zoo outing even more memorable. The Houston Family ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

Wouldn’t it be a dream of a day if you and your besties could have the zoo to yourselves? No toddlers hogging the best spots against the glass in the gorilla exhibit, or preteens perched on the ...

When a team of researchers set out to survey a patch of jungle in the Indonesian part of Borneo one May morning in 2008, they had no idea that they’d find the “holy grail of herpetology” on their ...

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo said that a necropsy report found that the bear drowned after sustaining a “crushing injury” to his trachea Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

FRANKFORT, Ind. (WISH) — No foul play was found in the deaths of the over 80 animals who have died at a Frankfort aviary and petting zoo since last summer. According to a release sent Tuesday, ...

A beloved polar bear at a Canada zoo died suddenly by drowning this week. According to the Calgary Zoo in Calgary, Alberta, Baffin, a 7-year-old male polar bear, died by drowning following a crushing ...