While the Zoo was closed, staff members captured some rare scenes of the animals experiencing the falling snow.

Videos show animals playing in snow at National Zoo in D.C.

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BIG COUNTRY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Welcome to Big Country Trails and Tales, where we explore affordable and often overlooked attractions right here in the Big Country. Today, host Shelly Womack spoke ...

There’s nothing tiny about a baby giraffe. Standing about six feet tall and weighing around 150 pounds at birth, a newborn giraffe calf is bigger than many humans. But their size only adds to their ...

Aspen joins her half-brother Beni and half-sister Willow, along with mom Alika, dad Aidan, plus two other female giraffes, Makali and Chandy. Newborn Masai giraffes weigh about 150 pounds and stand ...

TAMPA, Fla. – ZooTampa at Lowry Park has kicked off the new year with a massive win for conservation. On January 9, the zoo welcomed a female Eastern bongo calf—a critically endangered antelope ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The Abilene Zoo will soon say goodbye to Uhuru the black rhinoceros as crews prepare to move forward with construction on the zoo’s expansion. Uhuru arrived at the Abilene ...

In the fall of 2021, as Denver was grinding through yet another phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 virus quietly crossed a boundary that most people never considered: It jumped from humans ...

Work began Wednesday on projects affecting the zoo's white rhinoceros habitat, the McGovern Giraffe Habitat and Shani Market, a popular food stop tucked between the two animal exhibits. The zoo said ...

Construction crews quietly got to work Wednesday at the Houston Zoo, marking the start of a multi-year overhaul of the park's African habitats that will roll out through 2026 and into early 2027. The ...