What began as a pseudo-holiday for Black domestic workers who had to work on Easter Sunday and were banned from attending the ...

For 178 years, the Smithsonian Institution and its 21 museums, 21 libraries, 14 education and resource centers, National Zoo, and other ... The National Museum of African American History and ...

Zoos Victoria staff has been left heartbroken after they were forced to euthanise a three-week-old African lion cub. Werribee Zoo veterinarians made the difficult decision to put the cub down due ...

Imagine stepping into a world where the boundaries between man and wild seem to fade, where the roar of a lion echoes across ... While the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. covers ...

for instance (when I was last in Washington), the Smithsonian consisted mainly of the Arts and Industries Building, the Castle, the Freer, the Natural History Museum, and the National Zoo.

Video by Sarah Joseph and Jon Betz, Smithsonian Digital ... to meet the sea lions at the National Zoo? Not that many people get the opportunity to pet a sea lion. I thought they’d be slimy ...

Set on 163 acres in Northwest Washington, the National ... the zoo has worked toward conserving and breeding endangered species; its 3,200-acre complex in Front Royal, Virginia, serves as the ...

Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, say they successfully treated a leaf-tailed gecko for skin cancer using chemotherapy — a procedure believed to be the first of its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and ...