The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Some of D.C.’s most popular attractions closed because of the federal government shutdown. Although Smithsonian museums and National Zoo were able to welcome vistiors for ...

The temporary closures began Sunday. Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 ...

WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo shut their doors Sunday as the government shutdown enters its third week, the Smithsonian Institution posted on its website. The Smithsonian Institute’s 19 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) --The Smithsonian museums and research centers, along with the National Zoo, closed to the public Sunday for the first time during the federal government shutdown and are ...

WASHINGTON — The pandas at the National Zoo will find themselves without their usual adoring crowds Sunday when the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and research centers close their doors to the ...

The Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute have temporarily closed due to the government shutdown. Because the museums and the zoo are part of the ...

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...

The Minnesota Zoo, John Ball Zoo in Michigan and Assiniboine Park Conservancy in Canada have received the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' 2025 North American Conservation Award for their ...

Scientists are celebrating the recent birth of a baby Vallarta mud turtle at Guadalajara Zoo. It's part of a breeding program to one day increase the wild population of these tiny reptiles. Vallarta ...