They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Drawing on data from more than 100 mammal species, an international team of researchers examined the trade-off between living ...

CHICAGO (WGNTV) — The Brookfield Zoo has welcomed an epaulette shark pup to its team, but this baby shark’s family tree is missing a few branches. According to the zoo, the female shark pup, who ...

The Salisbury Zoo has announced the arrival of a male spectacled owl, Bosque, Spanish for "forest." Here's more about him and ...

Blocking reproduction through contraception or sterilization increases lifespan in both male and female mammals across more ...

Animal rights activists in Barcelona are celebrating a victory after the Spanish city ordered its municipal zoo to restrict the reproduction of captive animals unless their young are destined to be ...

Cockatoo Inca are rare and very beautiful parrots, which are practically not found in zoos in Russia. Describing these birds, German zoologist Alfred Bram compared their crests to the headdresses of ...

Nature's reproductive wonders are revealed as several female animals, including Komodo dragons, sharks, and even birds like ...

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, ...

The killing of Marius the giraffe at a zoo in Copenhagen surprised many people around the world — and shocked quite a few — but it was no isolated incident. Also put down by European zoos in the name ...