Today in History for Dec. 30: In 1384, the English religious reformer John Wycliffe died of a stroke. He was a bold critic of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church and believed the Church should ...

Fintan, who had lived at the zoo for 13 years, was put down Friday after his condition deteriorated, the zoo said in a social ...

Against all odds, nine lions are no longer trapped in a cold cage during the Canadian winter or displayed at a rundown roadside zoo during the summer. After the better part of a year spent overcoming ...

Resident penguins at Calgary Zoo enjoyed fresh snow that fell in Alberta on Monday, November 24. Video posted to social media shows the colony enjoying the winter weather on Monday. “Big snowfalls ...

Eyes in the Darkness: The hidden cost of roadside zoos is a five-part series that investigates the concerns surrounding roadside zoos in Canada. The story we’re about to tell involves three animal ...

In a first for the Turtle Back Zoo, two lion cubs were born at the longstanding Essex County zoo on Monday, officials said. The first-time mother, Makena, and her cubs are being monitored by zoo ...

NEW ORLEANS — Audubon Zoo's three new lion cubs finally have names! The cubs were born last month and zookeepers say they are growing fast and showing their personalities. The two girls are named ...

A man was killed by a lion after climbing a wall and entering its enclosure at a zoo in Brazil on Sunday, an incident that was captured in a video that has circulated on social media. The incident ...

A small pride of zoo lions had an unexpected reaction to a man playing a '90s Guns N' Roses hit on an acoustic guitar. Loris Assadian, who uses the moniker Plumes, uploaded a video playing the Use ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Detroit Zoo is celebrating more than just the holidays -- Amirah, a 9-year-old African lioness, has given birth to three healthy cubs. Sadly, a fourth cub born later did not ...

A troubled teenager who dreamed of becoming a lion tamer was mauled to death in front of horrified zoo-goers after climbing a 20-foot fence to get into the big cats’ enclosure. Gerson de Melo Machado, ...

A 19-year-old man was mauled to death after climbing into a lion enclosure Sunday morning in Brazil. Viral video captured the incident, showing the victim scaling a roughly 26-foot-tall fence to enter ...