It's a sad day for animal lovers in the D.C. area. Basil, the one-eyed opossum who called the Smithsonian National Zoo home, has died. "We are very sad to share that Basil—a rescued Virginia ...

Humans have used geckos in the pursuit of skin cancer treatments. So it seems fitting that when a gecko at the National Zoo was spotted with tumors, humans went all in to save the little fella.

the National Zoo. The orangutan’s name is Iris. Yes, Iris for I-R-S. She “was born here on April 15, 1987,” the zoo said on social media. That fact was followed by an exclamation point ...

They feed primarily on invertebrates, such as snails, crawfish and freshwater clams. They also are predators of Amazon river turtles, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

Lioness Mahagauri gave birth to four cubs on Sunday, making it the first successful breeding of Asiatic lions at Delhi’s National Zoological Park since 2009. “The mother is looking after the ...

Smithsonian/Roshan Patel It started, as many cancers do, with a lump. Keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center spotted it during a routine checkup—a small ...

The executive order also applied to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which has been part of the Smithsonian since 1890. For Trump’s critics, the suggestion that zoos might be indoctrinating ...

On an early spring day, kids lined up outside the Cincinnati’s Zoo’s giraffe habitat, waiting for an opportunity to feed the animals over a fence. One of the giraffes, Zoey, ambled over ...