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Mom Boipelo gave birth to the much anticipated baby last Sunday at the Dallas Zoo.

A venomous 7-foot snake called “Houdini” returned to its enclosure in Sweden after escaping for over a week.

The birth of a rare greater one-horned rhino was caught on camera at the Chester Zoo in England, a win for conservationists as the species faces extinction.

The cubs were born on Oct. 3 as part of a larger effort of wildlife and cheetah conservation by the Smithsonian.

The 13-year-old female chimpanzee escaped from Kharkiv Zoo on Monday, with zookeepers tracking her down about two hours later in the northeastern city’s Freedom Square, not far away. 

A new male lion killed a lioness Monday afternoon at the zoo in Birmingham, Alabama, just minutes after being introduced in the same enclosure.

Officials at a zoo in Alabama say a female lion was fatally injured while being introduced to a newly acquired male companion. The Birmingham Zoo says a female named Akili died on Monday within minutes of a meeting with a new male lion named Josh. The zoo says the slow process of introducing the two lions to each other had...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. is celebrating 50 years of care, conservation and study of giant pandas. The pandas were treated to fruitsicle cakes to commemorate the occasion.

Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.

On January 7th an elephant calf was born at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska. She was named Eugenia meaning “noble” or “well-born.”