On Friday, Lake Superior Zoo announced that there will be free admission to all children ages 12 and under for the rest of ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

Here's a guided tour to some of the brightest Christmas decorations around the Tallahassee area, as submitted by readers.

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Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

The L.A. Zoo recently welcomed five baby great apes: three chimps, one orangutan and a gorilla. The breeding process can be ...

But a new working paper suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong, at least in Taiwan, where the birthrate is one of the ...

The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

From matriarchs who guide entire herds to queens that dominate their hives, the animal kingdom is full of powerful females ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.