About the size of a half-dollar, the baby painted river terrapin — a critically endangered species — at the Smithsonian’s ...

Audubon Zoo is preparing to welcome the birth of a Western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species, after the zoo’s ...

As renovation projects continue to expand the Montgomery Zoo, its animal population is growing as well. Plans are in the ...

A Florida zoo is celebrating its first birth of 2026 - an endangered animal. See what it is and the adorable photos, video.

Zoo leaders hope the newest addition will delight guests and inspire visitors to take conservation action to protect tigers ...

Lions, penguins and wriggly millipedes all have to be counted every year. It takes up to a week to count the thousands of animals which live at the zoo.

Christmas came early to the Memphis Zoo with the birth of a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan named Ruhana.

The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 and as an AZA accredited zoo, Great Plains is required to have conservation as a core part of their mission.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Now the youngest member of the chimpanzee population at Colchester Zoo, the baby's arrival is particularly significant. Chimpanzees are currently listed as endangered on the IUCN Red list of ...

Humboldt penguins, Asiatic lions, corals, Seychelles millipedes and capybaras were some of the 8,000 animals being counted ...

Many gorilla populations have declined or disappeared over the past few decades. Western lowland gorillas have been assessed ...