A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 ...

After opening votes up to the public, the Philadelphia Zoo’s newest residents finally have names. 6 ABC proudly reports that those four Galapagos tortoise hatchlings — the first in the zoo’s ...

ST. LOUIS — A 5-month-old baby elephant made his first public appearance at the Saint Louis Zoo on Tuesday. Staff said it's the first of many. Jet, the Zoo's first Asian elephant born through ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Galapagos tortoise that’s been at the Toledo Zoo since 2014 has passed. The Zoo announced Friday that Emerson, 80, was euthanized after several years battling heart disease.

A favorite of many who visit the Cincinnati Zoo is expecting!The zoo says Gladys, their 12-year-old gorilla, is going to be a mom!“Gladys has been set up really well for being a first-time mom ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for over 75 years, orbiting at the chilly fringes of our solar neighborhood. But then scientists at the International Astronomical Union decided ...

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"Philadelphia Zoo’s vision is that those hatchlings will be a part of a thriving population of Galapagos tortoises on our healthy planet 100 years from now," Mogerman said.

One of Ohio's most fearsome creatures —an annoyed wild goose— faced off with a tiger at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in a recent viral video posted to TikTok. In the video posted on April 21 ...

A male camel calf born April 20 at the Milwaukee County Zoo. now has a name. His animal-care team named him Baatar, a word of Mongolian origin that means "hero," the zoo declared in a recent blog ...

"Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet." NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just snapped an off-Earth action ...