In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax managed to get a rare opportunity to see giant pandas at the ...

Spend a long weekend in our nation’s diverse, dazzling capital, with food from across the globe and free world-class museums.

A female clouded leopard was born at Nashville Zoo on Feb. 25, the 44th clouded leopard born there since 1991. Getty Images/iStockphoto A “mysterious” ancient cat has been born at a zoo in ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - The public is invited to help name two baby African penguin chicks born at the Saginaw Children's Zoo over the winter. The African penguins, which are critically endangered ...

An interactive map traces the spring 2025 migration north ... per the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Hummingbirds have various colored feathers, with male birds ...

TOKYO - An endangered rat that is also a natural monument of Japan will be on public display at Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino, Tokyo, from March 18. The Amami spiny rat, or Amami togenezumi in ...

Tending to their residents’ mental health is just as important. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo took a creative approach to this in 2017 when zookeepers gave animals musical instruments.

An enthusiastic group of national park supporters marched Boston’s Freedom Trail Saturday as part of a national protest against recent funding and staff cuts to the National Park Service.

A copy of the Toronto Zoo’s visitor and member transaction data over more than 20 years was “taken and leaked” on the dark web following last year’s ransomware attack, the zoo said Friday.

The zoo also plays an active role in endangered species breeding programs. Smithsonian’s National Zoo A Conservation Leader Brazilian Rainbow Boa by Smithsonian Institution. Original from ...

Desert ecosystems make up 50% of Australia’s terrestrial landscape, or 383.8 million hectares. In 2020–21, half of Australia’s mangroves had at least 80% canopy cover. Between 2015–16 and 2020–21, 4% ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a zoo to improve the health of an African elephant named Ely, the first time the country’s highest court has made such a move ...