In a collaboration with babycare brand Pura, Chester Zoo has been updating its facilities to make family visits with young children more comfortable.

The National Zoo announced Friday that its 5-week-old Asian elephant calf, Linh Mai, will make her debut before the general public — and on the elephant cam — on April 22, an introduction to human ...

African male Bailey had been a firm favourite with visitors and staff since arriving in 2010 and was a "big character with a ...

Trevor and Eugene go wild with world-class explorer and nature documentarian Bertie Gregory to tackle one of life’s most ...

The new 10,000-square-foot exhibit hall, called a black box exhibit space by architect Steven Gerrard of the Annum Architects, honors the New Formalist style of the original architect Edward Durell ...

Who needs to be tall when you are this strong? The elephant in this clip can’t quite reach the leaves at the top of the tree.

Senior White House officials are conscious that affordability will be the key issue in November and have said they would dispatch the president to the states to talk to voters about how White House ...

In a novel move, feces from a baby elephant in Ohio were shipped to the zoo and mixed with Linh Mai’s formula.

Many large herbivores that once roamed modern-day Panama have declined or died out—including the 6-meter-long giant ground sloth and elephant-related creatures called Cuvieronius. New research ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

Washington, D.C., has something to trumpet about overnight after welcoming a very small and very special new resident. A baby Asian elephant was born in the early hours Monday at the Smithsonian’s ...