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

Fall/winter Zoo hours are in effect: 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. daily, with last entry at 3 p.m. View Zoo hours.

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 ...

Fall/winter Zoo hours are in effect: 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. daily, with last entry at 3 p.m. View Zoo hours.

Four Chacoan peccaries moved into their habitat earlier this summer at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

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 ...

Halloween traditions return to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute this October with two wildly popular after-hours events: Boo at the Zoo, sponsored by Mars, ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, conservation campus are celebrating the births of three red panda cubs, born earlier this summer. “The cubs are really just ...