Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.

As a winter freeze grips the region, the New Braunfels Snake Farm Zoo is taking extra precautions to ensure the safety and ...

The Topeka Zoo is saying goodbye to two animals that will be going to another facility to aid the endangered species. On ...

Tula-Tu, the elephant calf born earlier this month, is undeniably cute. But she isn’t the first baby animal to cause visitors ...

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic ...

Feel like dissing instead of kissing your former lover this Valentine’s Day? Think your ex is more like a rat than a prince? Do you believe your former paramour should ...

While many people will be having fancy dinners or opening heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates on Feb. 14, many others — who either have a broken heart or suffered a recent bitter breakup — will not ...

Flying is an important mode of transportation in the largest U.S. state Alaska's vast landscape and limited infrastructure makes traveling by plane commonplace. Most communities are not connected to ...

Just hours after finding 10 people dead in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the cause of death for birds at the Bronx Zoo. The lab results ... The announcement follows state officials’ ordering live poultry markets ...