Two weeks after Billy and Tina's move from LA, a Tulsa Zoo official said, "We're going to give them complex spaces, enrichment" in a brand new facility with five other elephants.

One of the most popular birds at the Philadelphia Zoo has a new home. Flamingo Cove, an outdoor walkthrough aviary, is now open next to McNeil Avian Center. The new spot honors the zoo’s history ...

Goliath arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1929 and moved to Zoo Miami in 1981. He has bred with several different females during his time at Zoo Miami, but he has never sired an offspring. The new hatchling ...

The tapir is an unusual animal with a long history. It’s hard to miss, thanks to its stocky body and distinctive trunk-like snout. Even though tapirs live on land, your best bet for finding one ...

Tapir populations are declining due to habitat fragmentation, destruction, and hunting. ©YouTube/Smithsonian Channel – Original. Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo announced Wednesday it would close the small animals habitat by the end of the year. The facility does not provide an adequate habitat for the species there, Zoo Director ...

The Brookfield Zoo welcomed its newest addition as a bottlenose dolphin calf was born overnight. According to the zoo, this is the first birth for the species, also known as Tursiops truncatus ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf ...

Washington state teems with curious plants and creatures making headlines. At Point Defiance Zoo, visitors can spot a rare blooming artichoke agave and meet a newborn Malayan tapir that sports ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.