Fountain Valley is about a 40-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles.

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 ...

Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington ... according to the Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center team. Faced with a high-risk surgery and a patient who was otherwise active ...

A massive 19-foot-long creature dropped off at a California reptile zoo may be the biggest of its species in the world. Screenshot of the Reptile Zoo's video on Facebook A creature was dropped off ...

A creature was dropped off at a California reptile zoo that was so massive, one handler said it was one of the biggest they’ve ever seen — and might even be the biggest one in the world.