At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, portioning meat and weighing hay. By the time the rest of the zoo staff arrives, ...

Everything you need to know as the city prepares to host World Cup games, from its sporting history to the best places to eat ...

The last tamandua birth at DCZA, in 2014, was Cayenne, whose mother, Rio, another first-time mother, became inattentive and wasn’t allowing Cayenne to nurse. As a result, zookeepers had to step in and ...

Very little has changed in the two years since I wrote a piece here at ScreenCrush that pleaded with the Hollywood studios to ...

Rather than dipping turkeys into gravy, more families are “adopting” them, donating money to their lifelong care.

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

Unfortunately, one million endangered species could become extinct. On World Wildlife Day, learn who is at risk and how to ...

Every year, millions visit New York with a checklist of landmarks and not much else. But the city can be intense, even if you ...

From a turkey toss to a seasonal feast for zoo residents, here's a roundup of untraditional Thanksgiving traditions from across the country.

Engaging with what your child is doing or looking at is called joint attention, and it can help them feel connected with you, as well as boost their language learning. Trying different activities like ...

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome ...

The maned wolf has returned to the Louisville Zoo, restoring a program it’s managed since the 1980s.