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.

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Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Just days after the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. said it would cancel its diversity, equity and inclusion ...

The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery, as museums try to comply with an executive order ...

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about the latest after Donald Trump returned to The Oval Office and Washington DC's National Zoo officially debuting a pair of furry ...

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago ... of the zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute, emphasizing the need ...

and the only animals in the United States capital evoking so much love that the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute is now called the "District of Panda". After a hiatus of ...

Every morning at 7:30 a.m. sharp, a race begins on the outskirts of Chengdu, a sprawling Chinese metropolis known for its ...

greets a giant panda mascot as the Crush Funk Brass Band performs during the opening ceremony to celebrate the public debut of giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao at Smithsonian's National Zoo and ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, the two giant pandas from China, are 3 years old and arrived in October. After taking a few months to settle in, they're making their public debut at the National Zoo.