Smithsonian/Roshan Patel For conservation scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, helping animals “swipe right” on the best mate is all in a day’s ...

A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who ...

lot of new baby animals will greet zoo visitors this season, the most popular and famous of which are the twin baby gorillas. The twin gorillas arrived from Columbus, Ohio on Friday and will spend ...