The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) broke ...

Zoinks—it's Qing Bao's 5th birthday! To celebrate our female giant panda's special day, keepers went "far out" and created a ...

Watch the Smithsonian's beloved giant pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — inside their habitat at the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C. The Giant Panda Cam is live from 7 ...

There's a certain magic to a fall visit to the Zoo. Crisp air, crunchy leaves, and (if we're being honest) a lack of humidity ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s giant panda, Qing Bao (ching-BOW), will celebrate her 5th ...

There are plenty of objects and artifacts at the Smithsonian that are old. But at the National Zoo, there's not much older than Rulon and Chyna. The male and female pair of Aldabra giant tortoises, ...

To some, they’re living fossils. To others, they’re forest ghosts, rarely seen inhabitants of South America’s remote Gran Chaco region. But to animal curator Craig Saffoe, they’re equal parts ...

Nearly seven months ago, the world fell in love with a little Asian elephant named Linh Mai. After being rejected by her mother and needing nutritional assistance, the calf made an extraordinary ...

The Red Wolf is a critically endangered American canid, with fewer than 30 individuals in the reintroduced population and approximately 290 managed individuals in the Association of Zoos and ...

John Rice starts his morning early, trading an empty cup of coffee for a water bottle. It’s a summer day in rural Virginia, set to reach a high of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not the heat, but the ...