The shipments were rushed to the National Zoo overnight, packed in dry ice for the 400-mile trip. A few pounds in weight, the containers went immediately into freezers until the contents could be ...

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., just welcomed a newborn Asian elephant calf. Asian Elephants are listed as endangered due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. It marks the first Asian ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

It’s not every day that an endangered species welcomes a new individual in the safety and security of one of the world’s greatest zoos. Last week, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...