More than 500 native plants in San Diego County are held in a Native Seed Bank at the zoo. Those seeds are dried down to a ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is the only institution in North America to have successfully bred this critically endangered reptile for ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

By Shreya Dasgupta A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species that’s becoming rare in the wild. The yet-to-be-named male ...

The zoo announced on June 10 that it welcomed a baby African pancake tortoise to its facility. The female reptile is the ...

One notable success story is the cloning of Przewalski's horses, once extinct in the wild. Kurt, the first cloned ...

This year, the zoo flew 24,485 critically endangered Puerto Rican crested toad tadpoles out to repopulate their native wild ...

The zoo's Tropical Discovery exhibit is also home to mom Waffles and three males named Short-Stack, Denny and Flapjack. So ...

A critically endangered antelope species just got a little bigger thanks to the Houston Zoo. See the newest arrival and what ...

Marat, a Przewalski's horse foal at the Minnesota Zoo, fell critically ill shortly after his birth and was rejected by his ...