The Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden earned spots in this year's 10Best awards in their respective ...

A beloved habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden was named one of the best in America. The award was one of several the zoo received from USA TODAY readers on Wednesday, March 18, in the ...

The Primate Expedition Cruise is a unique opportunity only found at Naples Zoo, where visitors climb aboard a catamaran for a cruise around islands.

USA TODAY readers chose the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens as one of America's best -- and they haven't even seen the ...

This week there’s an impressive anthology of short stories, an amazing novel set in an Afghan community in Virginia (not the one in Cavan) about which I know we’ll hear more, a love story that I’m ...

A lot of exciting changes and celebrations are coming to the Cincinnati Zoo.The zoo is celebrating the birth of African penguin chicks for the first time in three years, marking a hopeful milestone ...

Washington, D.C., has something to trumpet about overnight after welcoming a very small and very special new resident. A baby Asian elephant was born in the early hours Monday at the Smithsonian’s ...

An eagerly awaited Asian elephant calf has made her grand arrival at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The baby was born Feb. 2 at 1:15 a.m. after a 21-month gestation to parents Nhi Linh and Spike, the ...

The female calf, whose name has not yet been decided, was born around 1:15 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2 to 12-year-old mother Nhi Linh and 44-year-old father Spike. This is Nhi Linh’s first offspring. Brandie ...

A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced Tuesday morning. The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and ...

A little puffin blown hundreds of miles off course by recent storms has been rescued by a dog walker from a beach in the south of England. Sonia Meachen, from Dereham, Norfolk, was walking her dog ...