President Grover Cleveland officially signed an act of Congress into law creating the National Zoological Park in 1889 for ...

Black tigers are a unique wild tiger found only in one location in India. Due to how few there are, conservation is ...

Some creatures just seem to have won the genetic lottery. You know the ones. They’re effortlessly cool, impossibly beautiful, ...

The Siberian tiger stands as the largest and most powerful cat on the planet, roaming the frozen forests of Russia’s Far East in numbers so small that seeing one in the wild is extraordinarily rare.

An 8-year-old African lion at the Como Zoo and Conservatory is receiving hospice care after being diagnosed earlier this year with an untreatable tumor in his nasal sinuses, zoo officials announced.

More than 80kg of rhinoceros horns, lion and tiger bones were seized in Johannesburg on Dec 1, following a joint operation between the National Parks Board (NParks) and South African authorities. In a ...

THE streets of Tangier witnessed a historic moment of sporting synergy on Tuesday last week as two of Africa’s most iconic contemporary symbols joined forces. Ayo, the official mascot of the Dakar ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo — killing one visitor and mauling two others on Christmas — planned a thorough sweep of the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Police are reportedly investigating whether one or more of the young men mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo may have taunted the animal before its deadly rampage, a ...

The Russian Air Force on Jan. 1 bombed a Ukrainian wildlife shelter used as an evacuation haven for zoo animals from other cities under attack by the Kremlin – wounding big cats, killing raptors and ...