Saharan Africa towers the giraffe, draped in mosaics of brown and tan patches. Long regarded as a single species, this iconic ...

The Maryland Zoo just announced its most recent arrival: eight African penguin chicks hatched and are ready to greet the ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” ...

Mokolo, a 10-year-old giraffe, joins Zoo Knoxville from Elmwood Park Zoo as part of a conservation plan to enhance genetic ...

When danger looms, the tiny and spiky armadillo lizard curls its body into a ball and bites its own tail — on purpose!

Zoo Knoxville has welcomed a new giraffe to its Grasslands Africa exhibit, and he’s expected to play a key role in keeping ...

Covering about 20 square kilometres, it is the largest of three remaining indigenous forest patches on Pemba, alongside Msitu ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

Egyptian geese are aggressively territorial. During mating, they are monogamous, making it likely the pair fighting the ...

KZN coastal anglers hit peak summer action with one of the strongest dorado runs of the season. Rock, surf, and offshore ...