Once found along the entire Pacific Northwest coast, the Oregon silverspot butterfly now survives in only a few isolated ...

The Oregon Zoo is home to many large animals – take, for example, the biggest baby in the city, elephant calf Tula-Tu. But the zoo also works with smaller animals, sometimes much, much smaller. Last ...

Oregon Zoo has welcomed 25 rare Pacific lamprey – a 400-million-year-old species native to the Pacific Northwest. The effort is part of a tribal-led initiative to restore lamprey populations above ...

The Melbourne Zoo in Australia shares footage of the most adorable pygmy hippo taking its first swim in the big pool with its ...

The Oregon Zoo says it welcomed 25 Pacific lamprey last week. The eerie-looking eels are part of a larger effort to restore ...

Rozi, a 2-year-old cheetah, came to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden from the Wildlife Safari in Oregon in 2022 as a single cub, rejected by her mother. But she wasn't alone for long.

A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore. Bear caged for 4 years makes first ...

In hippos, their tusks are actually just their canine teeth. Hippo tusks are made of hard ivory, denser than even that of an elephant. While some poachers do seek out hippo ivory, it is generally ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo has played in an important role in recent conservation efforts to save a rare bird species in Brazil, the zoo announced in a press release. Zoo employee Joe Wood ...

Handling the remains of a 3,000- to 4,000-pound hippopotamus is not something Florida’s state park system typically does. The park system is dedicated to preserving native flora and fauna and a ...

The Oregon Zoo is inviting you celebrate summer with them every Friday night through mid August! Zoo Nights features evening animal encounters, zookeeper chats and all kinds of activities.

Prior to the zoo’s innovations, the color of flamingos under human care often faded to nearly white. With the addition of carrot juice to their diets beginning in 1948, flamingos at the zoo were ...