The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announces the death of Murphy, the Komodo dragon who was a crowd-pleaser for nearly 25 years.

A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the ...

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

An endangered baby animal that looks like a fuzzy “walking watermelon” was born at a Washington zoo. The white striped and ...

A new resident is monkeying around at New York’s Bronx Zoo. The zoo announced Thursday that a male baby silvered langur is ...

Kayapó, Ramo, or Merida? Those are the choices that Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo has narrowed it down to, as they select a ...

Bibi, the mother of Fiona the hippo, turned 26. Bibi was born on Feb. 7, 1999 in St. Louis, Missouri, according to the ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo said Thursday it has closed its aviary "for the foreseeable future." In an announcement, the zoo said the closure "is out of an abundance of caution meant to protect our ...

"Slinky's playful nature is helping her grow into the wolf she is meant to be," said the Sedgwick County Zoo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of ...

Buttonwood Park Zoo's male Atlantic harbor seal Blue died Wednesday after a sudden illness. The seal was 21 years old. Atlantic harbor seals live about 25 years on average. Blue was the sole ...

He was the third-oldest male of his species living in a U.S. zoo. The average lifespan of Western lowland gorillas is 30 to 40 years in the wild. "We are heartbroken by the loss of Oscar," Zoo CEO ...