Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announces the death of Murphy, the Komodo dragon who was a crowd-pleaser for nearly 25 years.

Staff at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the District are mourning the death of a male gray seal, Gunther, at the age of 33, ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo has lost one of its beloved gray seals. Gunther, a 33-year-old gray seal who had been with the Zoo since 2012, died Jan. 18. In a release, the Zoo said the average life ...

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

Brandie Smith is the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. In an episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations," ...

London Zoo is now home to three of the world's rarest birds as conservationists join forces to save the species from extinction. The Socorro dove, a beautiful bird endemic to a tiny island off the ...

WASHINGTON – Little has altered Frances Nguyen’s life more than the pandas at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Their relationship began in 2006 when Nguyen tuned into the zoo’s "Giant ...

Two new giant pandas made their debut at the National Zoo. Giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, traveled to D.C. from China in October and have been quarantined since their arrival.